ONE STEP AT A TIME
They say you shouldn’t judge someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. The same can probably be said of race walking, and it’s a statement Team GB’s Tom Bosworth seems to agree with. The race walker, who was the first Team GB member to come out as gay in 2015, has set some incredible milestones and broken many a record in a sport that’s often derided for being “too easy”. Here, Bosworth tells Attitude how difficult race walking actually is, and reveals how he gets through the bad days.
What got you into race walking?
It was more what athletics as a whole offered. I think I would have loved school sports if it was a more welcoming place — I hated it! Team sports were never going to be my thing, whereas athletics is such an individual sport and it’s just me; you can be as fast or slow as you want. That is what attracted me to it. I’ve always been built to be an endurance athlete, that’s for sure. So, I was an easy target for bullies and deemed very weak and all sorts. Athletics involves different kinds of
