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You can't magic yourself back 10 years.
Paula Radcliffe
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Paula Radcliffe
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 17
Long-Distance Runner
Olympic Athlete
Northwich
Cheshire
Paula Jane Radcliffe
MBE
Paula Jane Radcliffe
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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 marathon)... By increasing the long runs, I found that does not take anything away from the speed but increases the strength on the track.
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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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I don't like going away from my children.
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From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.
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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 felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.
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It's good to be back, feeling like myself and enjoying it.
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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 can swim I'm not bad, but not great.
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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?
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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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I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!
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In the marathon anything can happen.
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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 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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Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete the other side just comes with the package.
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I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.
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Today was not about times, it was about getting in there, enjoying the race, and enjoying the atmosphere
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I apologise to people when I need to.
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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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