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.

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

Athletics is in my blood.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'