Life in the Fast Lane I have been a professional running coach for some twenty-two years now...to say that my running career commenced in humble beginnings is an understatement of significant proportions....an unexpected 5k race in Van Cortland in the Bronx NY in the Fall of 1989 arranged in cloak and dagger fashion by my sister Nicole led to a year later,somehow, someway (you know the story by now) a humbling, humiliating crushing 4.41 New York Marathon that figuratively (an

Life in the Fast Lane As an athlete and perhaps even more so as a coach I am drawn to other areas of life for inspiration, learning and education as well as to sporting accomplishments and abilities of others..I look to these other vocations, professions and artists as lessons and teaching tools for my sons as well as for my students... In this accompanying video I marvel at the expansiveness, inventiveness, creativity, art, skill, confidence, calmness, assuredness, uniquenes

Life in the Fast Lane... This is a message to young coaches out there just getting started and perhaps charged with the responsibility of coaching the young impressionable athlete... My plea to you is to exercise patience, to be firm but fair but to explain, to teach, not just to tell in a dictatorial fashion... First and foremost teach the young student how to run, use video analysis and example reinforcement, share video of world class runners with them and encourage them t

You say you want to achieve a goal and that is great, to me it is a big part of the excitement of life but you must be ready not necessarily to meet the goal (that part is unknown), no you must be ready to take on the journey....you must find inside you the steely strength, the desire, the focus, the concentration and the resolve to keep working toward it, through rain and shine, through thick and thin, through ups and down, over hills and through the valleys.......BUT most

'El Dragon' To me, it is quite simple... it is a universe that requires balance and harmony....and yet too many people, more specifically, too many athletes,more specifically, too many runners are either naive, ignorant or arrogant to this fact... As I have taught my sons Luke & Sam over the years, I am just the messenger from a higher source....you either respect the laws of nature, the balance of the universe voluntarily or she will force you to involuntarily and that never