I would say, and we were talking about it earlier, that.... My human brain is very smart; I've got a lot of letters after my name that say I'm a really intelligent person. My athlete brain is stupid; it is dumb.
I am really good at running reasonably quickly in mostly straight lines—I know that. We need a system that's almost paint by numbers, because not only are athletes so focused, and to get to the level that I got to, you have to dial in and rely on the people around you....
I ran on a torn labrum for four years. It wasn't until I lost my funding and got booted out of the system that I got it fixed.
We need a program, because when you're under that stress and being abused, it literally needs to be paint by numbers; it needs to be something we can just follow through with our very dumb athlete brains.