"Runway behind you". This is where I get shot down ........
The number of times I've seen slaves to that rule of "airmanship" risking fracture of their nosewheel strut and excessive tyre wear to try and get the last few metres out of the runway.
Runway in front of you is no good to you either, if there is no circumstance in the performance book in which you will use it. I've accelerated to 170 kts in a full B737 and then stopped with a good few hundred feet in front of me at LHR, just on RTO brakes. In the sim. Yes, I know there are adverse conditions and wet runways etc etc etc - but I bet the people who cranked the poor airframe around at the end of the runway didn't actually know how long their take off roll was going to be, or how much runway they would use if they stopped at V1.