Virgin Active Triathlon

I was lucky enough to take part in the Virgin Active London Triathlon 2011. I felt proud to be part of Richard Branson's team, along with Ortise Williams. Richard braved the docks in his wetsuit, Ortise whizzed round on his bike then I ran 5k to complete the sprint distance challenge.

Leading up to the event I trained with Darren Anderson from Virgin Active to improve my strength and fitness. A fantastic personal trainer who works you very hard to achieve your goals.

I have also started swimming lessons with Gosh who will hopefully teach me how to do front crawl and improve my confidence in the water. I would love to do a full traithlon but at present can only swim breast stroke (not very well!) and can't do front crawl at all, not to mention diving or being comfortable breathing under water. I am going to stick with it so hopefully next year I'll be swimming with the best of them in the biggest triathlon in the world.