Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
"Arthur Leslie Lydiard" was a New Zealand running/runner and athletics (sport)/athletics coach (sport)/coach. He has been lauded as one of the outstanding athletics coaches of all time and is credited with popularizing the sport of running and making it commonplace across the sporting world. His training methods are based on a strong endurance base and Sports periodization/periodisation.
Lydiard competed in the Men's Marathon at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand/Auckland, coming thirteenth with a time of 2h:54m:51.6s.
Lydiard presided over New Zealand's golden era in world track and field during the 1960s sending Murray Halberg, Peter Snell and Barry Magee to the podium at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Under Lydiard's tutelage Snell went on to double-gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Athletes subsequently coached by him or influenced by his coaching methods included such luminaries as Rod Dixon, John Walker (runner)/John Walker, Dick Quax and Dick Tayler.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous athletes! More Arthur Lydiard on Wikipedia.The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.
It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.
It's a lot of hard work for five, six or seven years. There's no secret formula. There's no shortcut to the top.
If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
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