This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.

At primary school, it was always me and this other girl, Lauren, who would fight over who was the fastest every year. I was quicker, but for some reason, she always got the glory leg in the relay team. That used to annoy me.

My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.

I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.

You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.

I'm trying my best.

It's crazy because it's a British record and a personal best, but I wanted that 2 m. I cleared the 1.97 m. first attempt with space, so I think I could have done a little better.

Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.

I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.

I think I've slayed my long jump demons.

You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.

I've always followed this page on Instagram called the Sausage Dog Hotel.

It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.

In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.

If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.

There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.

My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.

It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.

When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every athlete, so it just feel like it's a little bit of a missed opportunity - but I'm only 23. I have just got to get on now and keep going.