My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

My goal has always been to introduce other people to running. They might accomplish something they never thought they could.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.

Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.

You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.