and was rushed to hospital. I’d been drinking lots at every water station, copying my 13st male running partner. It meant I’d taken infar too much and was overhydrated.Apparently I started burbling – the paramedics thought I was Eastern European. I blacked out
the other’s best distance.Do you still get as much satisfaction racing now as when you first started?I have the same enthusiasm for the sport now as I did 30 years ago. I am like a child on Christmas day every time I compete.What’s the best piece of training
was almost impossible. It took a couple of months until I finally thought, “Right, okay you’ve done it, this is amazing and let’s get on”.Once I started winter training I knuckled down again. Then you’re training scared, because you’re worried you
confidence from these hours of preparatory punishment. “Racing’s the easy bit,” he says. “I never feel as bad after racing as training, because it’s a third of the distance. Some people lose it on the start line, thinking, ‘It’s a long way to go.’ If you
was not ‘Would he win?’, but ‘How fast could he go?’But, in Korea last summer, something strange happened. In the 100m World Championship final in Daegu, Bolt didn’t win. In the biggest race outside of the Olympics, he false-started for the first time in his
