It's Not Just How Fast You Move Your Legs

May, 2006

It's not Just How Fast You Move Your LegsLessons from Bill Bowerman, the greatest track coach who ever livedAt 17 years and six months of age I went off to the University of Oregon, 100 miles and a world away from the only home I knew.With 6,000 students, the school was the largest in the state. It was located in the middle of the Willamette Valley, a setting of tall trees, clean air and old buildings.I arrived a few days before school started, to work out with the crosscountry team. I was a wal...