Hoy taking little steps towards London 2012

Triple Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy has revealed he breaks his training schedule down into manageable chunks so as not to get overwhelmed by the enormity of the task ahead of him.

Hoy will defend three gold medals at London 2012, and with the difference between glory and failure often just a fraction of a second, the Scot knows the importance of every single session.

"You cannot afford to look at the bigger picture," Hoy told the Telegraph. "If you think, 'this is the first of 10 of the day and then I've got to do it again tomorrow and then for the rest of the week and then there's eight weeks in this block and then 12 months until the Olympics', it all gets very daunting.

"You have to look at it like a hurdles race, just looking at what's directly in front of you.

"Say doing a 500m on the track, you can't even think about the second lap on the track. You are thinking of the first second as you snap out the gate and make your first move. You just have to stay in the immediate future. Everything is a little stepping stone.

"You just have to remember that every single session counts. The margin of victory is so small. One thousandth of a second won me my first world title in 2002. When you win like that it's great but when you lose you go back and think of all the little things that might have got you that extra thousandth of a second."

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