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

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.

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

After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast as my legs would carry me. At the end of every race there was nothing left. I walked off the track completely spent!

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

I thought perhaps people with injuries could be subject to a starters gun to cure them.

Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.