SKANDIA Team GBR is the British Sailing Team in the Olympic and Paralympic classes.

The team consists of the Performance Squad and Development and Transitional squads, which jointly total around 70 sailors.

The sailors train and compete across 10 Olympic Classes: Finn, Laser Radial, Laser, 470 men and women, 49er, Star, NeilPryde RS:X men and women windsurfers and, new for London 2012, Women’s Olympic Classes Match Racing.

There are three Paralympic Classes: the Sonar, 2.4mR and SKUD18.

Great Britain is the world’s top Olympic classes sailing nation with the British Olympic team sailors topping the medal table at the past three Games in 2000, 2004 and 2008.

In a Dorset Echo column, Skandia Team GBR members are bringing an insight into the campaign for glory in 2012.

Here’s Paul Goodison, Weymouth’s Olympic gold medallist Laser dinghy sailor, who has been selected to represent Great Britain at next year’s home Games.

I HAVE been based in Weymouth for the last few weeks getting stuck in to the training.

The weather has been surprisingly warm and the training has been good.

It was nice to have some foreign visitors over to freshen the training up and a brief trip to Hayling Island for a qualifier.

On the eve of the qualifier I attended the British Olympic Association (BOA) Gold ball in London for an amazing event including acts from Tom Jones and Tinchy Stryder that in the end raised £700,000 for the BOA.

Unfortunately this left me with a late night and an early train down to Hayling Island.

Nick [Thompson] and I had some close racing in some glamour conditions 15 knots and large waves, I eventually went on to win, winning both races on Sunday. I have been involved with a few other cool things including a filming day with Sperry Topsider and the launch of the Volvo Sailing App.

The new app is pretty cool, check it out by searching for Volvo Sailing in the App store. It’s cool and it’s free… Then we had the annual World Class day for all sailors in the RYA Squad, lots of info but quite draining.

I woke myself up after with a quick ride to the gym on my new Orange bike, the cold air definitely did the trick before nailing my legs in the gym.

I hope they still work for racing tomorrow. As they say no pain no gain!

• Find out more about Paul Goodison at paulgoodison.com