Caravan Guard have been a proud sponsor of you for the last...
3-4 years now.
Just wondering how it felt to win double gold.
I think... it was a very strange feeling. Obviously I'm really proud of it,
but when you've dreamed about it for 4 years, that's the one thing you want,
I've got to the end now and I'm like "Oh, I don't know what to do now!"
But you know it's incredible and everyone's reaction to it was so massive,
everyone was so proud.
It just made me feel really really happy that everyone was part of it.
It was the most incredible feeling ever.
When you're on the podium and 80,000 people are singing the national anthem with you
Words cannot describe how amazing it is just to witness that.
Anything like being right in the middle of the track when all that was happening,
everyone in the crowd was like "it was incredible!"
and I was like "you didn't have the force of 80,000 voices rushing at you!"
It was the most amazing thing ever, words couldn't have described it.
Does it make it better being in front of a home crowd, do you think?
Definately, everyone who went to Beijing, Beijing was bigger crowds,
so we had 80,000, Beijing was like 92,000,
but everyone in Beijing didn't wanna be there
everyone in London wanted to be there, and whether you came first or came last,
or you came somewhere in the middle, everyone was just dead proud of you
being on the start line representing Great Britain.
So everyone was excited for every single race and the atmosphere was incredible.
Just electric. And I loved it.
I think you kinda mentioned the atmosphere:
What was it like when you actually crossed the line?
When I was watching it, you looked like you didn't know whether to laugh or cry...
Yeah, I ponder it: I was first girl to win a gold medal on the track,
since Tanni Grey-Thompson in 2004, and I was the first girl,
first person on the track and field team to win a gold medal that games.
I hadn't seen any of my friends do it, seen how they were gonna react to it,
I didn't know, I literally crossed the line and was like "Oh God I don't know what to do!"
And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and I watch videos back
and it does look like my face... I've got the weirdest face ever.
I was fine, but I just felt numb. I was like,
"I seriously don't know how to react to this one".
I was just trying to work it out, you've literally, all the nerves
and then you've got 17 seconds to get rid of them, and think about how to react
Maybe I should have put some thought into it, I mean, for the 200m I was like
"Right, if I win this one, I kinda have it a bit planned",
So that was a bit better but... I just had no idea.
Obviously, like... you're from Halifax, you're proud to be from Halifax,
Is it good having Halifax and people at Caravan Guard behind you?
Absolutely amazing, especially when I did my homecoming in the Piece Hall
we had one in Leeds before that, we had the London parade,
We had all these different things to celebrate how we'd done,
then I came back to the Piece Hall and I've never seen it so full!
There were thousands of people in there, it was incredible!
And it made it better because all the people that were there
my family, my friends, all my supporters,
and they've all been through the entire 4 year journey with me
so they weren't just people proud of you because you're from Great Britain,
they were proud of you because they knew how hard you'd worked to get what you've done
and that was the only moment during the entire games that I got emotional.
I was like "oh God!"
No it's absolutely fantastic, I'm loving it.
Obviously you travel around the country a lot, with training, with competing as well,
where's your favourite place to visit in the UK?
I guess my favourite place to visit, there'll have to be a fast track, so...
I kinda like Coventry, just because it's got a very fast track,
I get some good times there.
And Stoke Mandeville's got a fast track, I get some good times there.
But none of them are very picturesque,
we don't get to go to any little countrysides or big cities.
I'm kind of falling in love with London now.
I used to hate it, but I love going down there at the moment.
and seeing everything because everyone's still on a bit of a hype from it all,
and it's really fantastic to see that.
Obviously you've had to deal with doing interviews like this,
you've had to deal with a lot of media attention,
what was it like going on 8 Out Of 10 Cats as well?
It's... I get back from the games, and my coach was like,
"You realise your life is going to completely change now", and I was like "No it won't."
"I'll go home and my grandma'll be proud of me and my next door neighbour,"
"Have a party or whatever."
And everyone will say 'well done' the first time they walk past me,
but after that everyone's just gonna forget after a week or so.
It's now 2 months on, and no-one's forgotten.
It's still busy as ever: Literally the day I finished the games,
I've had something different to do every single day.
I mean it is amazing things, like 8 Out Of 10 Cats
I was so excited when I got asked to go on the show
I watch that show all the time.
When you get on it, it's not quite what it appears to be.
- I was a little bit like... - It's not as glamorous as...
It's definitely not as glamorous as it looks, this whole lifestyle!
Bits of it are fun, but there are bits that are hard or boring
or you don't wanna do, sometimes you just wanna go to sleep.
But I'm just trying to make the most of it, grab every opportunity I've got.
because I don't know how long this is gonna last, you know.
The Paralympics has really come out of the Olympics' shadow right now and...
I think everyone's kind of living up to what we can give, more or less
Because you never know when it's gonna stop. I think after Christmas, it will be like...
just go back to your training, get on with it!
We'll see you in 4 years!
That's what I was gonna ask you!
When do you get back into full training for the next Paralympics?
I'm already back in full training: I only had a week off after the Paralympics
then I went back into full-time training.
It's not as full-on as it was before the games,
Before the games I'd do 15 sessions a week.
Now I'm back down to, I think I'm on 8 sessions a week right now.
Each session is between 1-2 hours, which doesn't sound a lot,
but because I'm a sprinter I do short sessions at high intensity,
so they're kinda those 'push till you're sick' moments.
I've been training nearly 2 months now and
it's hard work fitting it in around all the media
because you've something to do every day
so I'm in the gym at 7 o'clock in the morning to get my training in.
It's not so much fun and I'm missing my bed,
but it'll be alright.