Advice? Speak to other athletes who have been through the process before and be prepared to work bloody hard and travel a lot. I think the biggest shock for me was just how competitive the male AG races are. Make sure you have a good support network around you as well including partners/families and other people in the club! It was seeing other athletes making the AG teams, using them as a benchmark and feeding off their positivity that made me try, and eventually succeed in getting that elusive GB trisuit. Pulling it on for the first time is an incredibly humbling experience and makes all the long hours of training absolutely worth it. The atmosphere and experience at a championship event is very very special and you get to meet some amazing people not just from the GB team, but other nations as well. I’ve got quite a few pieces of other nations kit as souvenirs post race…..