and two huge minders, an official answer is dutifully trotted out about getting to travel the world, meeting his lovely fans, and seeing first-hand how he inspires others. But when I remind him in a quiet moment later that in an interview last year, he
of what I'm about to do. That calms me down. But as the competition progresses and the stakes get higher, you get these thoughts in your head: 'What if things go wrong?'"Subscribers can view the rest of the Runner's World's exclusive interview with Jess
. There are triathletes from all round the world. I think the town of Kona is pretty sleepy the rest of the year too so that contrast over race weekend is exciting. The chaos created by the race is good fun. Everyone checks each other out in training.On race day
way to start an interview but, as is soon apparent, if there's one thing the multi-talented 25-year-old athlete doesn't do with aplomb, it's dull.We've just met at St Pancras station in London. Jess has arrived by train from her home in Sheffield
with my coach Michelle Dillon and her squad of triathletes since the start of January. We’ve all come to Sydney for the first race in the ITU World triathlon Series. Unfortunately I couldn’t race because I’m recovering from a couple of stress fractures
and I really enjoy watching Jenny Meadows as she's a very gutsy runner. I'm looking forward to cheering on all the GB team. I just wish I was ten years younger so I could take part myself. Being able to travel around the world, meet other athletes
Q. How are you feeling?A. My training's been going well, although I did get sick just before the Great North Run. I haven't had any major setbacks since then. Travelling to the NYC Marathon was uneventful compared to the journey I had getting
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
and even the Sahara, with a 12th place finish in the Marathon des Sables in 2010.Then disaster struck. Cracknell suffered a serious brain injury during the Race Across America last year when the mirror of a truck travelling at 75mph struck him from behind
