Paula Radcliffe Quotes

I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.

I put my body through hell. I run 120 miles a week, week in, week out.

Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.

Running is my bedrock activity.

I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.

I can run a long distance very slowly and I do a half marathon every year.

I want to do marathons; I want to do an Ironman.

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

I would say 90 percent of the stuff we do is technical anyway. If you look at a two-hour training day, 12 minutes are probably spent running or gaining fitness.

I do track, I run football fields, I run hills. I run until you feel like you can't run any more. I do the pool, I do anything that takes my body to the limit.

As an athlete, you can train for so many years to be a 5K/10K runner. That's who you are, and it's hard to change that. Not using that technique - almost like a sprint - that's when you have to loosen up and just save as much energy as you can.

Before, I could lift 600lbs in squats and all incredible stuff in the gym, but if I walked a couple of miles I'd probably get out of breath.

You imagine running 120 miles a week, week in, week out, for the past four or five years. It takes a little bit out of you.

It is not easy to participate in the 21 km. marathon. It takes a lot of energy, determination, and will power. It takes months to train to reach that mark with a proper diet chart.

The more you run, the faster you get, and that's more efficient because you're running more in less time.

A lot of the people I know, they don't train like that. They do a lot of quick stuff, just speed drills. But I run long distance. I've always been like that, though, even when I was in high school. That's just how I train myself.