[Gertrud]

You first broke in to the world’s elite in 2000, and you’re still there. Kim Collins, what is your secret?“

I try to preserve my body. I think injuries are preventable. Sometimes I’ll race and I feel something, I just have to chill.”“The problem is, when it comes to training, it’s what we call volume and intensity. It means: the distance you run, how fast you run it, and how many times.“Both volume and intensity cannot be the same, but for some athletes it is – and it’s too high. “One guy told me he was running 20 x 100 metres all out in a training session. I would never do more than 3 x 100 metres at high intensity. “Very rarely, you go all out in training, and I think that’s the mistake most people make. They come to training every day and want to break a personal record or world record. “You come to train Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday – and then you compete on Saturday. And you wonder why you’re running slower in competition than in training. It’s a vicious cycle.”"

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