About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.
Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
Every marathon starts with that first mile. But somewhere around mile 16 or 18 - trust me on this - your feet are killing you, you're not sure you can breathe anymore, your mind is frazzled, your body wracked with pain, and all you want to do is stop.
It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!
It's kind of like a midlife crisis kind of thing. When you turn 40, you have to run the marathon, while all the parts still work properly.
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.
There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.
Where the marathon starts is after 30 kilometers. That's where you feel pain everywhere in your body. The muscles are really aching, and only the most prepared and well-organized athlete is going to do well after that.
Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.
The 2008 season was very long and extremely hard - probably the toughest of my career.
I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.
We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance.
I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
We don't need to run 5-6 kms, even in a Test match.
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.
You put me in there with anybody at '35 or '45, I get on your back, I take you down, it's going to be a long night and it's a dangerous situation to be in.
I find cardio hard.
It's very difficult in England because the season is very long and hard compared to other places. There's not a lot of recovery time at all, not even a break at Christmas. You just have to do your best and get on with it.
One-day cricket is a lot more draining because it's a lot faster. You don't get as much break. You are running a lot harder.
It's an amazing experience for me, coming from the F1 environment and to see a race like Le Mans.
What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
It can be very thrilling being able to witness Viola Davis do her thing for hours and hours, but there are also no windows, and you're just in a room for fourteen hours trying to keep it together.
