chafing after an hour’s sea swim, but I know two other women who suffered quite nasty chafing around the back of the neck, which brings us to the zip issue. Huub’s breakaway zip entails a tricky manoeuvre of pulling the zip up an extra couple of inches

this triathlon to be part of our legacy and to see as many people take part as possible.” The ‘Brownlee Tri’ will taking place at the World Heritage Site on Saturday 21 September. A super-sprint triathlon, it will start with a 400m swim in Studley Royal lake

How did you get into long-distance swimming?It was something that my first coach in Britain saw that I was naturally gifted for the longer distance events so it went from there.When did you know that you wanted to pursue it as a career? From a

) and learnt to swim enough to complete my first children's triathlon in Harrogate and really enjoyed it.Q. What is your favourite discipline?A. Running is my favourite discipline, I think it's the one that comes most naturally to me, and I love just putting my