I may not drink an electrolyte beverage during the race. If I am running in an hour, I won't need one. But if you're running an hour-and-a-half to two hours or more, maybe you need a little bit of the electrolytes.

I race kind of sparingly.

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.

I don't go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen