The Importance of Focusing on Your Race

I think I've just trained my mind over the years like pain in what I do, pushing myself and the pain that I'm going to feel is inevitable. There's no point waking up thinking, oh, God, I'll be in pain today because it's going to be the same tomorrow and the next day and six days a week. You have to be content with doing everything that's within your physical capacity that you can do. That distinction in between having the outcome of a gold medal or a world title versus the performance of just go and give you your very best. On those mornings where you know you're going to suffer if it's not the outcome of an Olympic gold medal,