The phrase "as distance runners" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to individuals who participate in long-distance running events or activities.
Example: "As distance runners, we need to focus on our endurance training to improve our performance."
Alternatives: "as long-distance runners" or "as marathon runners".
In this contest, the runners held their arms close to their sides, as distance runners do today.
Yet Gorman's successes remain an important milepost along the road to widespread acceptance of women as distance runners.
Just as distance runners once fantasized about breaking the four-minute mile, I am animated by the dream of cracking the 1-hour-47-minute barrier going door-to-door from New York to Washington.
"We're all in it together as distance runners.
International athletics stars such as distance runner Bernard Lagat and sprinter Carmelita Jeter of the United States, plus St Kitts and Nevis sprinter Kim Collins are also among those competing.
Do rowers listen to the same stuff as gymnasts, sprinters as long distance runners?
GAZETTE: You've written about persistence hunting and the ability of humans to run down faster animals, and even, over a long distance, animals that we think of as being distance runners, like horses and dogs.
As for distance runners and cyclists, Rundell said, they can be affected by air pollution, especially fine and ultrafine particles, and by the drying effect of breathing rapidly for long periods of time.
Salazar thinks that form is as important for distance runners as for sprinters.
These tests, which are not monitored by the Food and Drug Administration, typically rely on a single gene marker and claim to be able to predict whether you — or your child — will have success as a distance runner, say, or as a power-based athlete, like a sprinter.
Joyce and her older sister Regina, who competed in the marathon at the 1984 Olympics, were England's top distance runners as juniors.
