COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.
Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.
The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.
Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.
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.
The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.