I now race marathons, I don't pace marathons.

That's the way I view it is I go into the race with the goal of being fit enough to do whatever it takes to be in the race. I'm a believer that pace dictates a lot of this to an effort. If I'm more relaxed, I can take more. If I'm running, if I was running five-minute pace, I think I could do 200 grams an hour and probably be fine.

But when I'm trying to run 440 mile pace, my body is get this out of me as if I actually put that much in, it would immediately come out. It would have been nice to have that guy to chase, but I think in some ways I've benefited from being a little bit of a lone wolf in training. I have training partners. Don't give me wrong, but I do a lot of work alone.

And I think it's helped me learn a lot about myself and better my craft.

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