Sam Walton was an Olympian in this sense, a long-distance runner in the race for competitive ideas.

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Finn, an experienced long-distance runner in his own right, is not the first person to ask this question.

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One of them is former high school long-distance runner, Janny Dang, who's gathering pledges for his next marathon.

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You see, I'm a long-distance runner, a marathoner, and those pinchable, inline controls meant I could skip songs without feeling around for a button or taking my eyes off the road.

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She's a long-distance runner herself in a metaphorical sense.

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Mr Woodhead's mother is understood to have urged police to widen the search on the grounds that her son, an experienced long-distance runner, could have travelled some way from his base, near the town of Longreach.

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He himself had begun his career as a college-champion long-distance runner, had then risen to a senior position with the railway company, and for years had travelled the railroads, covering tens of thousands of miles to assure himself and the authorities that the proper safety levels were being maintained.

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