Got into Triathlon: I started with fusion in winter 2013 to get some structured run training as I’d entered Edinburgh half marathon for that summer. I attended the Tuesday evening run session and that is the one session that has pretty much been my staple session all these years. The session worked too, I PB’d that half marathon at 1 hr 37 which I was delighted with, little did I know a few years later and a lot of fusion sessions later it would come down to 1hr 25 at Alloa half 2017.

I have attended all of the fusion sessions in the past but currently my regular sessions are a Monday night swim, Tuesday morning swim and Tuesday night run as I do a lot more on my own to be make my training as time efficient with life as possible. After realising the benefits of structured training, the excellent coaching and supportive atmosphere at fusion I quite quickly got hooked on the whole triathlon thing. So, little more than a year later I was stood on the start line for my first GB age group qualification race in Southport June 2014. I can’t remember what you needed to automatically qualify (possibly a top 4 finish in your age group) but I was second overall in that race which I was over the moon with and meant I had qualified for European Champs in Geneva 2015………and that was the start of my age group racing.