Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.

If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you.

If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.

So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.