Paula Radcliffe Quotes

championships, and went on to break the U.S. record in distances from three miles to the marathon. At the 2004 Athens Games, Deena outlasted the world-record holder, Paula Radcliffe, to win the bronze, the first Olympic medal

¿Cómo era posible? Ninguna mujer figura entre los cincuenta más rápidos del mundo cuando de tiempo por milla se trata (los 4:12 del récord mundial femenino fueron alcanzados hace un siglo por los hombres y es superado constantemente por muchachos de secundaria). Cuando se trata de maratones, alguna mujer puede colarse entre los veinte primeros (en 2003, el récord mundial de 2:15:25 conseguido por Paula Radcliffe estaba solo a diez minutos por encima de las 2:04:55 del récord mundial masculino conseguido por Paul Tergat). Pero en las ultramaratones, las mujeres se llevaban el gato al agua. ¿Por qué, se preguntaba Vigil, la brecha entre los campeones masculinos y femeninos se hacía más corta conforme más larga era la carrera? ¿No debería ser al revés? La

It was a joyful last mile," she said in her book Paula: My Story So Far, about the real-life race, and she surely earned that joy. She had talked herself through near-exhaustion by counting to 100, by aiming at landmarks, and by thoughts like, "No matter how exhausted I might feel, a half-an-hour run is one I can manage." She pushed all the way, under 5 minutes for the last mile, never tempted to save anything for another day.

Life is about juggling five balls in the air. They are health, family, friends, integrity and career/achievement.

At the first one we did it was pouring down all day, and it was lovely to see the big smiles on everyone’s faces despite the weather. They really enjoyed it – particularly the kids.

My dad always taught me 'have a plan stick to it', so here we had a plan and we stuck to it, all the family found it easier to do that.

It was about five balls: life is about juggling five balls in the air. They are health, family, friends, integrity and career/achievement. These balls are not the same; the important thing to remember is that the career ball is made of rubber but the others are more fragile.

A growing number of elite runners — including Kara Goucher, Doc Patton, and Paula Radcliffe — are proving that it’s possible to balance a tough training schedule with a family. In fact, some say that having a baby has actually helped them achieve better balance.

All the captain's wives belonged to the literate, well-traveled ranks of the new upper-middle class. Family records say as little about them as such records generally say about women, but one of them - probably Sarah's great-grandmother Mary Furber - left an unsigned diary that the Jewett sisters discovered in the old house when they were well into middle age. Set in Exeter in 1782, it shows us a young woman much like one of Jane Austen's Bennett sisters (the younger, flighty ones), engaged in a ceaseless and rather cold-blooded appraisal of the marriage market. Young men are ruthlessly sorted into two categories, "Somebodies" and "Nobodies.