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

Set a master goal for your running and for your life...

We didn't keep track of how many miles we ran back then. We just ran. If you LOVE to run with the kind of passion I have for running, you will understand this. Running was my mode of transportation.

Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age.

Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.

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.

I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.