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You imagine running 120 miles a week, week in, week out, for the past four or five years. It takes a little bit out of you.

You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

There's something just magical about flight. Period.

Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.

Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

My mind is always racing.

My brain is just always going and going and going.

You've got all that 130 km. of being totally focused, and as soon as you cross the line, it takes a few seconds to realise what's happened.