I was never an athlete, but my teen enjoys competitive sports and trains to be at max performance as a runner.
I have always wanted to be a runner, but I have bad knees. Do they like long distance running or shorter sprints?
He like long-distance running over distances of at least eight kilometres.
Are they on the school track team or in a running club of some kind?
Technically track and field since it includes cross country running.
I don't know how people run in the heat. I would pass out. Does extreme weather bother them?
Heat wave
A heat wave, or heatwave, is a period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate countries. While definitions vary, a heat wave is usually measured relative to the usual weather in the area and relative to normal temperatures for the season. Temperatures that people from a hotter climate consider normal can be called a heat wave in a cooler area if they are outside the normal climate pattern for that area.
The term is applied both to hot weather variations
Alfred Shrubb
Alfred Shrubb (12 December 1879 – 23 April 1964) known as Alfie Shrubb was an English middle and long distance runner. During an amateur career lasting from 1899 to 1905 (when he was barred from amateur competition for receiving payment for running) and a professional career from 1905 to 1912 he won over 1,000 races of about 1,800. At the peak of his career he was virtually unbeatable at distances up to 15 miles, often racing against relay teams so that the race would be more competitive. On 4