bike so I had to resort to nutrition on the course and developed stomach problems - so my main goal is to finish. Top 10 would be a dream. Everyone will be so close though, and even top 20 would be great.TW: What will you eat and drink during the race

Keri-Anne Payne's name is synonymous with open-water swimming. She won silver in the gruelling 10km marathon swim at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, when open-water made its Olympic debut.With London 2012 quickly approaching, Keri-Anne is predicted

Open water swimming's poster girl Keri-Anne Payne made history when she took silver in the very first Olympic 10K marathon swim in Beijing. A year later she followed this feat with gold at the 2009 World Championships.A true water baby, Keri

sessions, I do one long run of around 32K (around 2:15), with 8x1K efforts, and a longer tempo run to finish off; then I do two interval sessions – one with 800-1600m (faster than race-pace reps) with shortish recovery and the second interval session

– with a personal best of 2:24:40 – but I couldn’t win one. My best place was second at the Kingston Marathon so I decided to give triathlon a go. At the Kirtons Farm race there were no set distances so we swam a mile, biked 40 miles and ran 13 miles. I

, those longer sessions are important confidence boosters. Before a marathon you’ll have a breakthrough run – you might complete a 20-mile run and suddenly you know you can do it, or before a 10K run you might have a great interval session