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The Queen of the London Marathon
Everybody needs good friends. If you're a long distance runner, there are worst ones to have than a girl called Paula.
GB marathon star Liz Yelling talks about training with the world's finest.
I run the 10,000m, cross country, and also the marathon. My training partner is the one and only Paula Radcliffe! I met her at my running club when I was 11 - she's a year older - and we just gravitated towards each other. We became really good mates. We did everything together - trained, swam and going out in the evenings.
It's great training and running with a friend - we still talk once a week - and occasionally meet for coffee - but we both lead quite isolated lives. I run the same, but I've learned a whole load of other stuff from her. Particularly things like attitude. Paula's very disciplined and an absolute perfectionist. We've really fed off each other and developed a hard work ethic. Paula and I share the same coach - Alex Stanton - and ahead of an event like the Olympics - we sit down and draw up a timetable.
This covers training, the physio, massages, the races. I then visit my weights coach and sort what I have to do. I'll stop training a week before a race. But I do like running the marathon. I enjoy the pain. The harder the race is, the better I am.
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