Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.

On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.

I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.

I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.