You can't become a winner overnight, or even in a couple of years-it takes time... You will lose races and you will have to accept that, learn from it and believe that you'll win the next one, knowing that you'll probably lose that as well. All the time you have to keep believing that one day you will win.

The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.

I don't like going away from my children.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

I have always loved running on the roads, ever since I used to take part in relays for my club when I was 12 and 13. I felt really at home on the surface.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.