Paula Radcliffe winning the New York City Marathon Photo: Iaaf.org
5-days.
That's not a lot of time before tens of thousands of runners once again take to the streets of New York City for one of the world's biggest and most prestigious marathons.
But while many of those runners will be striving for a personal best one runner, Paul Radcliffe, will try for a fourth victory in New York.
"After the races I've missed I'm going to be really grateful to be there," said Radcliffe who has had a string of bad luck with injuries and illness.
Perhaps her biggest disappointment came due to a stress fracture of the femur while training for the Beijing Olympics.
"I'm pleased with how the training has gone," she told the BBC Five live program. "I wouldn't be putting myself on the line if I didn't think that I could go to New York and win it," she said.
"I really enjoy racing. It is something I love doing. Getting the chance to do that and to prolong my career for as long as possible is what I really want to do," she added.
"The hard thing I'm finding now is that my body is nearly 36 but my mind still feels like it did when I was 18 and probably will still always feel like that, so I just have to be more sensible about how I do the training and the recovery."
Radcliffe, who finished 23rd in the marathon in Beijing after failing to finish in Athens 2004, revealed she was still dreaming of Olympic success in front of her home crowd in three years," according to BBC News.
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