Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more…

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It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes....