It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.

My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!

I was watching 'Deal or No Deal' on YouTube recently, and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000. I think I just like watching people achieve their dreams.

As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.

I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.

Before training, I eat slow-release energy food, such as porridge or muesli, especially in the morning. Afterwards, I eat protein so my muscles are able to recover, such as a protein bar followed by a meal of chicken and vegetables. I always stay hydrated during workouts by drinking plenty of water throughout.

I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

I just need to concentrate on each event and accumulate a good score, and hopefully I won't flop in the 800 m. in Gotzis.

I've been training quite hard.

It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.

In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.

I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.

I've got so many big gains to make in the javelin and the shot put. I know I'm not going to be winning the field in those events, but I need to do myself justice.

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.

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

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

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

My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I think I've slayed my long jump demons.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm trying my best.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.

There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.

London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!

I remember going down the tunnel into the Olympic Stadium and getting a glimpse of all the people and hearing all the noise, all the people shouting for us. I'd seen Usain Bolt on the warm-up track, and then, as I walked into the stadium, I sort of realised how big it was!