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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.

I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.