long distance runner
Example Sentences
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Barnett was on the track team at Aberdeen High School, where he was recognized as the greatest long distance runner in the school’s history.
From Seattle Times • May 30, 2022
The 5-foot-7, 125-pound long distance runner is silent as he stares ahead for 18 miles, chasing a vision.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2022
Salazar is an accomplished long distance runner himself who won the New York City Marathon three times and the Boston Marathon once.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2019
The research by the Technical University of Munich confirms not just the loneliness of the long distance runner but a range of other depressive symptoms among solo sportsmen and women more generally.
From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2016
Corporal Hamill, one of the old soldiers of the Battalion and a well-known long distance runner, was killed at the same time.
From The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by Hills, John David
