But for those of us in it, we're not as surprised as some other people are. We've seen it building. |
Every time we tried to get going there was some factor -- weather, wind or turns. I think we all suffered somewhat from conditions. |
For Athens and Boston, I had really prepared for tough conditions, whereas here you can just prepare to run the marathon at your pace, |
For those of us in it, we're probably not as surprised as some other people are. We've seen this coming for a while. This has been a work in progress for the last 5 to 6 years. |
For those of us who are in it and make our profession, we're probably not as surprised as other people. We've seen this coming for a while. We've seen this building. I think it is a new day, for sure. |
I feel like the bad conditions and the tough course is to my advantage, just because a lot of people are going to be disheartened when it starts going poorly, |
I felt good; I was trying to be mindful of what was coming. There's always that balance. You have to race but pay attention that there's another 15 miles or so. |
I think for those of us that are in [long-distance running] ... we're not probably as surprised as some other people are, honestly. We've seen it coming for a while, and we've seen it building. This has been a work in progress for the last five or six years. So you know, I think it bodes very well for the future. |
I thought he was some guy who jumped onto the course. |
I thought I was clear. |
In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could. ... In Boston, there's never any area on the course ... where you can settle in and just get on a pace and zone out, whereas here you can do that. You can zone out for huge periods. |
It went through my mind at that point that this is like the Tour de France, where the crowd opens up as you go by. It was really cool. |
It's a delicate balance. Because you don't want the race to go without you. |
Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 of them out of the way for you. |
Most countries around the world, they just don't think that way. They think, 'I'm just going to get in the race and I'm just there to race.' |