I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life.

I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.