I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.
From Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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.
I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
Thankfully, I found athletics. My mum didn't like it at first, but the funny thing is that, now, she's the biggest athletics fan out there. She's a real expert, and she's got all the heptathlon books.
You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.
In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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