“In a 2014 interview with Flotrack, Chris Solinsky, a former American record holder at 10000 meters, confessed, “I’ve discovered over the last couple of years that I don’t know if I’ve been as tough as I thought I was.” This discovery was prompted by a fitness-robbing injury that left Solinsky struggling to keep up with teammates in workouts for the first time in his life and made him realize that his prior physical dominance had deprived him of the chance to develop the mental skills to cope with such adversity.”