The main sports in Ethiopia are athletics (particularly long distance running) and football.
Since then Michael has joined a track club and is getting into distance running.
We have some fairly good black women in distance running, but they are not at the top yet.
Ethiopians won 8 of the 18 available medals for distance running.
He talked about his 19-year-old son, who is considering a career in distance running.
I learned more about distance running and Steve's part in it on that trip than ever before or since.
It was the first games at which there was a significant African presence in men's distance running.
"Anyone who does distance running is always looking for a new challenge," Shapiro said.
And he clearly loves racing, it's great that distance running is back for Britain.
There are many different ways to train for distance running, but here are some basic rules.
"This is going to be a wonderful celebration of American distance running at its finest."
He also broke many of their short and middle distance running records.
The park's facilities make it ideally suited for many activities, among them various distance running competitions.
Jones may be almost injury-free partly because she started distance running late.
Mrs. Haines started distance running eight years ago, when she was 68.
He took part in 1500 metres middle distance running events and played football.
This is a short distance running express and covers its journey within a day.
Tully is noted as a distance running powerhouse across the league, Section 3 and the state.
Their achievement was in pushing back the frontiers of distance running with world records.
There was not much distance running to be had in Cairo's searing heat.