My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

You cannot always run at your best.

The marathon can humble you.

I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis