Occupation: Olympic Athlete Birth: December 17, 1973
I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog while out training in Monaco at th….
I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012..
I can't imagine living and not running..
I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much.….
To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifyi….
Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful..
A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them.The world half marathon is a world ch….
The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?.
I don't like going away from my children..
I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want t….
No one remembers who came fourth..
Doing the long endurance stuff seems to have given me the strength to sustain the speed. I think my body is just a lot stronger (thanks to the marath….
From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of..
It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and tr….
An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic….
I try not to worry about things that I can't control..
I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet..
Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package..
I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140..
I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!.
I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness..