A TRI-UMPHANT RETURN
MEET JACK Former 220 staff writer Jack Sexty is now editor at Road. cc. Jack has raced everything up to Ironman distance, is a sub-2hr Olympic-distance athlete and has represented GB at the ITU World AG Champs on several occasions. He’s also a regular kit tester on the pages of 220 .
“You have chronic osteoarthritis in your right hip and knee.” That’s not the kind of thing anyone wants to hear from a dour orthopaedic specialist, let alone a 31-year-old triathlete who hoped this was simply a sports injury that’d disappear with physio and rest.
Fast forward eight months and I’m about to start the 5km run at the Weston Park Sprint Triathlon, something I thought might never happen again on that rubbish day at the hospital. I take the first corner, find a rhythm and it almost feels like old times… until a massive hill appears and I’m reminded of my hugely haggard hip and knee, with a lamentable lack of run fitness thrown in for good measure. It’s a long old slog to
