I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

I want to keep my private life private.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

Asthma is treatable and well can be controlled.