Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa.

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

There is a whole new breed of marathoner who wouldn't even have considered running something like a marathon. In the past, people ran if they were exercise junkies. The marathon held the ultimate challenge for them.

To me, running a marathon is one of the ultimate challenges in sport. And for her to do it that many times, wow, she is a strong person. She knows her body, and she knows what she is capable of doing.