I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.