I don't attach the importance to it as a lot of other people do,
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.