I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

Army. 0 (1974)
5000 meters - 13:26. Cierpinski was later implicated as a part of the state-sponsored doping program of his country by East German track and field research files uncovered by Werner Franke at the Stasi headquarters in Leipzig in the late 1990s.

Frank Charles Shorter (born October 31 1947) is an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. His victory is credited with igniting the running boom in the United States of the 1970s.