lots of good sleep as that’s so important when you’re pushing your body to the limit.On the set, the other actors started calling me the Weatherfield Roadrunner or Paula Radcliffe. Whenever my character needed to run along the cobbles in a scene

?A) People like Paula Radcliffe when I was younger and Kelly Holmes - they have both had massive injury. In the build up to the Games when things weren’t going well, it would have been so much easier to stop and not do it, but I had so many people supporting

. Build up to itIf you want to run a successful marathon, don’t rush into it. Start with shorter events, gain experience and build endurance, then tackle a marathon when you get fitter and stronger. Paula Radcliffe and Haile Gebrselassie had been running