Dathan Ritzenhein I Thought I Could Win

Ritzenhein had done exactly what coach Alberto Salazar had told him to pre-race: to make it a mile instead of a 10,000m at the end. "I knew that it was going to be slow," said Ritzenhein. "He told me beforehand that 'I don't want you to go until a mile to go. You can run 3:56, and I don't think anyone other than Galen can do that right now.' "It's a hard way to break people. It's one thing to out-kick people or just have a nice steady pace. But to know you're in the front and know you'd have to break people one by one, that's what I was trying to do. I was trying to get rid of everyone, even Galen too," he said. Courtesy: Chris Lotsbom, Races Results Weekly