The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.
I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.
There is always the excitement of running races.
Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.
I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.
I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.
Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.
When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.
I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.
I'm suited to harsh conditions, I don't like racing in the heat.