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Hello everyone, thanks again for visiting my page.  It would be great if after reading this you have the urge to donate to Help For Heroes.

I have been wanting to enter a Triathlon for about 18 months now and I have finally got round to entering the Blenheim Palace Sprint Triathlon.  Well it's not a full MANS Triathlon!!!! It is more of a beginners/school boy one.  But I predict it will be extremely hard to swim 750m in open water, ride 20km on a bike and finish up with a 5km run.  What I also predict for the future is bringing pain to my own door step when I am getting fit enough to complete the "beginners" Triathlon!  So to increase my chances of success I have got myself a coach, her name is Caron (she is the one in the brown hat).  Caron will help me out in the hard times with extra morale and motivation.  Carons responsibilities also consist of tactics, strategy and holding my bike when i get out of the lake.

I left the army in November 2003 after spending 5 1/2 years in the Kings Royal Hussars, I completed tours of Kosovo and Northern Ireland.  So it was easy for me to select a charity to fund raise for.  Our armed forces are working so hard in Afghanistan and Iraq, they deserve our respect, admiration and support.  I have spoken to people who have completed operational tours of these places and their work is arduous and dangerous.  They put their lives at risk everyday protecting us and helping people less fortunate than ourselves. I want to do this to help those injured carrying out these duties.

So can I do Help for Heroes justice in the Sprint Triathlon?  Well after leaving the Army I did what most ex squaddies do...........sit on my bottom and eat takeaways!  I got to the stage of bordering on obese, my Mum kept telling me I was a fat boy.  At first I wasn't bothered because Marks & Spencers sell 38inc(waist)29inc(leg) jeans.  But when I weighed nearly 14 stone I decided enough was enough and I came to the conclusion that i needed to increase my mortality.  I bought a mountain bike, entered a few competitions, and started running with an occasional trip to the swimming pool.  Now my aim is to put all these disciplines together and complete a beginners (very exhausting) Triathlon.