Related Clues:

• Four-minute men
• Chickens
• Track competitors
• Some distance runners
• Track athletes
• Half-___ (track specialists)
• Bannister and Coe, e.g.
• Experts at flight?
• Jim Ryun and Marty Liquori, e.g.
• Middle-distance runners
• Distance runners
• They have some distance to go
• Each of them is "one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs": Bierce
• Four-lap runners, often
• Shakespeare: ''. . . . . . . die many times before their deaths''