Beating John Landy Was My Defining Race.

If There Was The Opportunity To Climb A Mountain, Or To Go Ballooning, Or Some Adventurous Activity, I Would Always Be Keen To Do It. I Loved The Countryside.

I Was Playing Rugby And The Other Games English School Children Do, And There Was An Event Which Was Planned In Which Races Were Run, And I Simply Just Won These By A Considerable Margin

Without The Concentration Of The Mind And The Will, Performance Would Not Result.

I Trained For Less Than Three-quarters Of An Hour, Maybe Five Days A Week - I Didn't Have Time To Do More. But It Was All About Quality, Not Quantity - So I Didn't Waste Time Jogging, Ever.

My Introduction To Track Racing Was Through The Background Of Cross Country Running, Which Is Not A Sport Perhaps As Popular In America As It Is In England.