It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

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.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.