Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

There's still this underlying image of women that they should fulfil a certain role. It's no accident that a lot of men who are a bit misogynistic tend to say things like 'get back to the kitchen' or 'why aren't you at home looking after the kids'.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners