You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
Hills are speedwork in disguise.
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.
My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
My goal is to break three hours in a marathon
You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
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.
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