I don't like going away from my children.

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.

I've always been good at putting things behind me–I fall apart, do my crying bit, and then put it away and move on.

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.

Doing the long endurance stuff seems to have given me the strength to sustain the speed. I think my body is just a lot stronger (thanks to the marathon)... By increasing the long runs, I found that does not take anything away from the speed but increases the strength on the track.

I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.