Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.

When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.

I also held several masters running titles.

You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.

The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.