Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.

I started running in Junior High School. I was so slow and uncoordinated the coach set me up with a paper route so that instead of going to work out after school I went to the corner of Providence Ave at Crestline St. and picked up a bundle of 15 newspapers.

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.

The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.