I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.
I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.
In my younger days, I loved to run. Although it may be hard for you to believe it, I did. And I did win a few races.
I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.
I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.
I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particularly good, so I didn't just carry on because I was good, but it just really appealed to me.
I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.
I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
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