
Interesting insights from World Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie. Q. What is your race plan for the Berlin Marathon? I am thinking about just the possibility to run more faster for the marathon just sounds good you know just to run, to run you know just 2.02 sounds really nice and well when I said to people I'm going to run a 2.03 OK now very close to I mean 2.03 still you know 2.03 doesn't matter about no-one talk about 59 second. Now I wonder if I can run just 2.02 it means you know just kind of good to say 2.02 you know nice thing. Q. How Important is breaking the World Record? Absolutely, yeah really very important even if I can not do you know just 2.02 I can play you know just very close to that you know like even you know 2.03.30 it's possible surely very possible in Berlin and for next time just preparing well and it will be possible. But 2.02 is something very special and of course it needs hard thing for that, hard training. We'll see, who knows? Q. How many marathons can an elite athlete at competition pace run in a year? Mm, it's better not more than 3, 3 is the maximum and I myself you know just I'm doing you know just 2 marathons a year the rest you know just half marathon, 10K, 15K something like that. You can have it, you can do up to 4 marathons a year but a question is just how long you can keep just that kind of programme you know can you run just 4 marathons every year for 5 years or something? Q. How important is the relationship between the <b>...</b>
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