You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Hills are speedwork in disguise.
Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.
The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.