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30th November 2004 (David Powell)
One day all of this can be yours, Paula. One day you will be a former marathon runner, into your fifties, perhaps challenging yourself to travel ten kilometres at a speed slower than you used to cover more than four times the distance. You may, of course, be more sensible than me and try nothing of the sort. But then you will not have been overwhelmed by the chance to run with Paula Radcliffe...
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Sunday Times - Joining Paula on the Nightshift
26th November 2004 (BBC Sport)
Paula Radcliffe could miss the London Marathon next season in a bid to go for the "grand slam" of Big City marathons. Radcliffe has won in Chicago, London and New York. Victory in Boston would match the achievement of Ingrid Kirstiansen - one of her heroines. "That's the dilemma and the choice I have to make if I decide to go with a spring marathon," Radcliffe said ahead of Sunday's RunLondon. "It's one of things I'll have to think through when I go on holiday."
Radcliffe leaves to Mexico for a few weeks next Wednesday, less than a month after winning the New York Marathon.
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BBC Sport - Radcliffe Could miss London Race
16th November 2004
With 2004 now drawing to a close, the focus is now on next year and the up-coming World Championships. Paula looks set to compete in the 10,000m in Helsinki and has suggested plans to compete in a marathon during the spring (either London or Boston). She also said that she'd like to help the British women's team to get back in to the European Cup superleague, and so might race at the European Cup 1st division.
As yet, however, nothing is set in stone. "My other plans are still up in the air, so we'll have to wait and see," said Paula.
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BBC - Radcliffe ready for 10,000m bid
14th November 2004 (Bryan Appleyard)
This book ends with the disaster of Athens and with a brief ecstatic moment of recovery soon afterwards when, intending to take a gentle 30-minute run, she stretches it to an hour. “I can’t imagine living,” she writes, “and not running.”
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Sunday Times - Paula by Paula Radcliffe and David Walsh
7th November 2004
In one of the most anticipated come-backs of the year, Paula returned to winning ways at the ING New York Marathon. In an unusual twist of events, the world-record holder for the event won with a sprint finish over long-time friend and rival, Susan Chepkemei. The winning time of 2:23:10 (8 minutes off Paula's world record, but three minutes faster than the winning time in Athens) puts Paula in 3rd place on the 2004 World Lists. But given the fact that it was a tactical race on a notoriously slow course, the time was fairly irrelevant. "What mattered today was winning," said an elated Paula.
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IAAF - Radcliffe makes successful comeback in New York
BBC - Radcliffe win eases Athens agony
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