You don't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

Hills are speedwork in disguise