Fifteen minutes can seem like a long time, depending on the situation. When you are near the end of a shift at work, or waiting for the end of the last class of the day, a quarter hour can tick off the clock very slowly.

I am here to tell you that 15 minutes is not nearly enough time to run three miles, certainly not when it is over a cross country course with hills and whatnot.

But there are 1,044 people who have done that -- or better -- at the state finals course in Peoria over the past 36 years. There have been 36 runners from the Naperville area that are on that list, including eight last year.

Naperville North senior Kyle Gibson was the subject of a Q&A with Dyestat.com on Tuesday and I put the quotes around chats in the headline because it seems clear from the transcript that this was an e-mail exchange. Either that or the author doesn't believe in spellcheck.

Gibson dished on his experience of competing at last year's Class AAA cross country state meet while battling bronchitis, stated that North won't be satisfied with anything less than a state championship and listed Oklahoma State, Portland and Iona as his possible college destinations.

Gibson, who placed third in the 3,200 meters this spring at the state track meet, also took a playful shot in at teammate David McWilliams.

David McWilliams is also a really good runner having a great summer that not many people know too much because he plays baseball in the spring(he's an old man though so his hip needs to hold up).