Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

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.

Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.

Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.

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.