There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

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.

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.