What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.
From Ashton Eaton
The strong ones are the ones who realize that having a bad training day, those types of days are necessary.
That's what we want people to do. Select a goal or gold and go after it.
What I feel like I'm doing is showing people what is humanly possible when someone commits their entire life to something.
I would say 90 percent of the stuff we do is technical anyway. If you look at a two-hour training day, 12 minutes are probably spent running or gaining fitness.
I don't set goals. Competing with a number in your head can be limiting, and I don't know what my capabilities are yet.
Even though decathlon is really long, there's always something different to look forward to, which is great for mental stimulation.
I could never be a distance runner, because I can't run for more than ten minutes. There aren't enough iPod gigabytes in the world to make that worth it for me.
My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.
Now that I'm older, I see the benefits of having free time to release energy.
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