What do you do when you have a kid who you have told over and over that he is running too much and won't listen? Either he will run more miles than is needed or too fast on the easy days. instead of working where he is , he thinks he should be at a different level. Tried talking and explaining over and over. It falls on deaf ears. tried talking to the parents and either the kid is telling them something different or they are not willing to listen either. The kid just wants to copy cat the #1 runner because thats just what he wants. It is increasingly frustrating. Can't replace the kid with another team mate in the line-up because we don't have enough runners. Race times are not improving week to week, actually they are getting slower. Without being rude, some advice would be nice. I tend to think the kid is very selfish because he won't give the coach an opportunity to work with him and in turn it hurts the team.