In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.

I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

That was our plan. We didn't expect the first part of the race to be fast. Our plan was for the second part. My plan was to run under 59 minutes and that is what we did.