I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In 2008, Pistorius was the only guy who could run under 22 seconds at 200 m. So I said I would run as fast as that in London. I practised; I trained.
I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.
I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.
As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.
Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.
You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.
People are so easily impressed by running, but I run pretty frequently.
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.
When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.