What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life.

I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.