"Just knowing that, and wrapping your mind around the fact that everyone is running in the exact same thing, so it’s not any more difficult for you than it is for anybody else. So, be the toughest person out there, and you can use the weather to your advantage to a degree. Because if you can gut through it when a lot of people start getting soft or feeling sorry for themselves, obviously that's how you win. I train in Michigan, so [I run in bad weather] pretty frequently. Just haven’t done a marathon in it, so that was a first."