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

I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.

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.

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.

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.

If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs.