Wisdom or Nonsense from LetsRun.com?

For those of you who don't know, LetsRun.com is a website devoted to anything and everything running.  It's best known for it's (world famous) message boards...Today's quote definitely has relevance to what I've been talking about over the last few posts.  Feel free to comment liberally...

Quote Of The Day

"Last year he (Galen Rupp) only averaged 80 miles a week ... That's not enough. This year we're doing 110 now and he's already feeling a lot stronger. Someday he'll be at 120 or 130. Not next year. We'll do it gradually.

- Alberto Salazar on his pupil Galen Rupp.