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Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

You get into such a routine of trying so hard each day and racing between 180 and 220 km., and as soon as you stop, it's weird, but you start to seize up. So it's easier if you keep the body ticking over. You just feel better for it come race day.

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.

There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.