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If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.

Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.

When you have good runners, you always run fast. That's the motivation for me. But I have room to improve in my technique and in the start.

For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

Fitness has always been one of my strengths. I can do all the long-distance runs. When I was at school and we entered the competitions, I used to do the 100m, 200m, and the 1500m as well, so it's never just been a pace thing.

I'm not much of a gym rat; I'd rather be running, but if it enables me to run faster, then I guess I can tough it out.

People are so easily impressed by running, but I run pretty frequently.

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.