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

soccer as my main sport. I dabbled in athletics and swimming, water polo and cricket. A bit of everything really.What makes you love triathlon?Good question. I love competition. I love pushing myself. I love the lifestyle and that my office is outside

ironmate.co.uk, coaches triathletes, runs a triathlon training camp at Tri-Topia in France, marshals at Big Cow races, and is writing a book about triathlon. He somehow fits all this activity around his unofficial role as the UK’s most prolific triathlete

the Double Ironman, so I had a really good cycling base and I didn’t have to focus on that. During my second buildup year, I did lots of running in the winter, then when the open water season started in April pretty much every weekend was spent in the sea

you have to cope with the swim?I’m going to break it down into legs when I compete. I was going to do it in one day, which I thought would take around 16 hours, but now I’m going to do it over two days. I start my open-water training this month, so I

Penticton, which is where IM Canada takes place, so there's a big triathlon community to train with. I raced  Ironman Canada six weeks ago, so I haven't had much time to recover or get into my training routine again. I've been here for four days. It's better