Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE. Gerry Lindgren More Quotes by Gerry Lindgren More Quotes From Gerry Lindgren 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. Gerry Lindgren track passion running The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast. Gerry Lindgren race way years 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. Gerry Lindgren work-out running school There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion. Gerry Lindgren down-and passion running Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner. Gerry Lindgren race athlete two I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home. Gerry Lindgren basketball baseball sports 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! Gerry Lindgren payback evil life-is The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread. Gerry Lindgren distance wakes-you goal 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. Gerry Lindgren train-hard running kids 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. Gerry Lindgren running believe thinking Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed. Gerry Lindgren speed young running 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. Gerry Lindgren evil forever looks Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything. Gerry Lindgren tough humans animal 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. Gerry Lindgren team girl running The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem. Gerry Lindgren dehydration becoming causes I thought perhaps people with injuries could be subject to a starters gun to cure them. Gerry Lindgren injury gun people If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race. Gerry Lindgren crush running sports News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run. Gerry Lindgren news running people 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! Gerry Lindgren race college two
