HOORAY, Cheffy! You will love your Garmin. It sure makes you slow down when you need to! Waytogomom, we've found running to be a great sport for our kids. They're not aggressive at sports, either. I would tell them to go for the ball in soccer, but they just didn't have that killer instinct! They'd run up and down the field quite well, but not be very involved in offense OR defense, lol. Running is much better for them. It's also a nice way to avoid all the politics that happen on a lot of teams in our town. Good luck to you both in your races! 4 of the 5 us in our family are running a 5k this Sunday - oldest son can't since he's in the middle of outdoor track season, and he is already racing the mile and two-mile every week.
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LPH, my son is following the direction from his XC / track coach. 50 is the maximum he does - other weeks it's 40. His coach has had a lot of experience and has an excellent reputation, so I just let him tell my son what to do. My main concern is that my son is a perfectionist and works way too long on some school assignments, so he doesn't get enough sleep. It's hard for these kids - they work hard all day, have practices or meets after school, and then have to do homework at night. He puts too much pressure on himself (I wish he could give some of that self-motivation to his younger brother!). I might e-mail his coach to see what thoughts he has. It's cool you've been to Maine! A guy just ran a sub-4 mile in Maine last fall, for the first time ever.
dick quax came to speak at a dinner i was at recently. he was the 5k world record holder (13:12.9) in the 70s. as part of his speech he mentioned the 100mile weeks he (and many of his peers) ran at 16 yrs old. in those days that was completely normal for high school track and XC teams. he strongly encouraged our talented club juniors who were at the dinner - mostly in their mid to late teens - to up their mileage.