AM - 13 miles. Woke up around the 20K mark of the marathon (we correctly guessed that nothing would happen in the first hour), watched the second half of the race, then went back to sleep for a bit. Andrea and I met Allie at Liberty Park later in the morning... ran a little over 6 miles with the girls, then home from there. Lots more great track to watch this afternoon... 1500m semis, steeplechase, and the 100m! PM - 5.2 miles easy to cap off an easy, lazy day. Recap of the 10K with quotes from the athletes. My favorite is from Alberto Salazar: "Back thirty years ago there weren't as many East Africans, but there still a lot of very good ones and they weren't any better than the best Europeans and Americans. I don't believe all of a sudden they were genetically better. I think a lot was psychological. I think Americans and Europeans just gave up. Another big problem I believe was there's too many people who use the excuse of drugs, that anyone who runs fast is on drugs. The second you start thinking that as a coach or as an athlete you're basically saying you're not good enough to compete with other people unless you cheat. What I've always told our guys is 'Don't believe all that bull. Those are the losers that say that.' Rather than trying to change their own training to get better they use that as excuse and it's a defeatist attitude. A lot of the mindset for us was 'We can beat these guys. We've just got to train smart.'"
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