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It's good to be back, feeling like myself and enjoying it.

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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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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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I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.
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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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I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.
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You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.
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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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In the marathon anything can happen.
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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 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. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.
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Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.
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I apologise to people when I need to.
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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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In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.
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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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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 am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.
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I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.
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