This past Saturday at the 2007 Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kona, Chrissie Wellington took the Ironman world by storm by winning the women's championship title, her first. With the win she becomes the first athlete from Great Britain to win the Ironman World Championship title. The amazing thing of it all is that this was only her second Ironman race in her career. A month ago she participated and won her first Ironman race in Korea. Chrissie only turned pro eight months ago, as the Ironman motto goes "Anything is Possible". She is a member of TeamTBB and is coached by Brent Sutton.

Tri247.com, the triathlon resource website in the UK has posted an exclusive interview with Ironman World Champion Chrissie Wellington on their site. The interview was conducted by Simon Ward from TheTriathlonCoach.com who was Tri247's man in Hawaii; he got a chance to talk to Chrissie after the post-race press conference.

Simon gets this out of Chrissie right away:
I turned professional to compete in standard distance races. In fact it was only five weeks before Korea that my coach suggested I do an Ironman. I said “Am I ready?”. He said "Sure” and it’s all happened very quickly. I’m overwhelmed.

We also get to find out what's on her immediate schedule.

Interview [via Tri247]