Peter Bol

Yeah

The bit that I love is the last few years.

So '23, January, a month later, cleared.

August I think Sports Integrity says all wrong, but you're still at a low ebb, but you find a way.

Paris doesn't go as you want in 2024, but you keep building, you keep building, you keep building and, you know, you run these times that are incredible.

You go to Poland and finish in indoor in, you know, great shape and then back to back championships again.

It's a great story of persistence and resilience and belief.

You must be pretty proud of what you've done post the lowest point of your life.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, and sometimes I, I actually don't sit down enough to reflect upon it-

Yeah

...

so, like, having these conversations, it's like, it's like almost therapy, right?

Yeah

So you get to kinda see all of this come through and a great way I used to do it is, like, kinda journaling and, and that's, that was, like, really good therapy.

But having conversations through it, it, it's pretty cool.

What's the most misunderstood part of your journey?

journey?Um, I think everyone sees the races, the medals-

Yeah

... um, the competition, everything.

But they don't really see, I guess, the pressure, the expectations.

Um, and it's hard because this is really what you wanna teach, especially the young generation, like the resilience part of things.

It's like they don't really get to see that, 'cause you can't play a tape and see that, oh, like he's resilient the way he's running.

It's like they see the end results and they're like, "Oh," like, "I can do that" And then they go to the trainings like, "Why? Why can't I get to that, to that..." Well, 'cause they don't see the rest of the stuff.