I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.

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.

I am a private person and that has always been my personality.

Even today, in retirement, I find it very distracting if there is conversation during a run. I work out as much for my head as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas come to me more easily when I am running. That is why I like to run in the morning.

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

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.

I don't think I would have been such a good runner if I hadn't enjoyed it.