If you don’t believe the mind is the most important factor in athletic performance, it’s quite simple – you are wrong. The chance to run this race wasn’t handed to me out of the blue like the Commonwealth Games; it was a goal I had made sitting on a cold, dark road when I was too tired to run up a hill. If you don’t believe it is vital to know what you want, why you want it and how much you want it, it’s quite simple – you are wrong.
