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From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

Paula Radcliffe

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Paula Radcliffe
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: December 17
Long-Distance Runner
Olympic Athlete
Northwich
Cheshire
Paula Jane Radcliffe
MBE
Paula Jane Radcliffe
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I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.
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For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.
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I was glad I did a year abroad, because it helped me as an athlete and as a person. That took me out of my comfort zone. Watching the French athletes train in the Pyrenees made me realise what I had to do to become a top athlete.
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I used to say that the newspapers were tomorrow's fish and chip paper, but I didn't really mean it I could still be hurt by what they said. After Athens, I just didn't care.
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I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!
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I don't like going away from my children.
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I can swim I'm not bad, but not great.
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I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
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I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth
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You can't magic yourself back 10 years.
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I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.
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I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.
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You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.
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We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what people are using or what they are using to disguise it.
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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 championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event.
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I've always been good at putting things behind me–I fall apart, do my crying bit, and then put it away and move on.
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Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.
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There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.
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I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.
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You can't become a winner overnight, or even in a couple of years-it takes time... You will lose races and you will have to accept that, learn from it and believe that you'll win the next one, knowing that you'll probably lose that as well. All the time you have to keep believing that one day you will win.
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