Scott Westcott

So I was really fit going in and just the taper, I just – as I started tapering, I just didn't start – I didn't freshen up.

I just wasn't – like I remember two days before I was still feeling quite sluggish and I – I bumped up my Ks in that prep, got a bit of a roasting from my coach because we didn't really speak about that and I just went a little bit rogue and it was well-deserved.

Yeah, I put my hand up and said, yeah, I screwed up a bit there.

But I just think I overcooked the training and was so fatigued that I went into taper and I just couldn't get back up.

So, yeah, it was a bit of a – reality check I suppose you could call it and I think for me every marathon had just gone so well and it was just like yep bang bang bang bang what's next what's next and that was probably the first one where I was like oh yeah marathons are hard.

Did it make you hungrier at the time or what did you take away from it?

Yeah it I don't know it I don't think it actually made me hungrier I think it made me um just probably respect the marathon a bit more and probably respect my coach not that i didn't respect my coach um it was just like hey we are a team and we need to be a team and i wasn't really a great team player there so probably yeah made me realize that a little bit more but i i don't know i don't get that like even after gold coast i it didn't make me more motivated i feel like i those things don't motivate me it's um yeah but i i definitely learned i learned a lot more from london than say valencia

Yeah, the biggest lessons always come from the tougher moments, I think.