A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

Over his career he trained 31 Olympic athletes 51 All-Americans 12 American record-holders 24 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers. During his 24 years as coach at the University of Oregon the Ducks track and field team had a winning season every season but one attained 4 NCAA titles and finiBill Bowermand in the top 10 in the nation 16 times.