Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.