35 Quotes by Deena Kastor

My preparations leading up to this weekend have been fantastic. I feel the most confident I have ever been going into a marathon.

London has such a star field. I'm going there to concentrate on the racing and if all goes well, the (fast) time will come.

I will take a couple of weeks to reflect on my next goal - I haven't discussed what's next for me yet.

My coach thought I was feeling so good that I was just going to forgo my water bottle, but I actually didn't see it until the last minute.

There's nothing I can think of that parallels what that feels like,

All of my preparation has been about running in control and doing a negative split.

It's definitely one of my goals to be part of that elite group of sub-2:20 women, ... I am going to run an aggressive race.

It was one of my expectations as my training has been going so well. I did want to run faster but I wasn't feeling it early on. I managed to hold on to go under 2:20 which was my main goal.

It was great to win and great to break 2:20, those were my goals coming here this weekend the last three months of preparation have been with this moment in mind. I'm really happy with the race.