What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

How many times do I have to say it? … Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'

What ever your 100% looks like, give it.