MARTYN BRUNT
Martyn is tri’s foremost average athlete and is living proof that hours of training and endless new kit are no substitute for ability.
I’ve done a triathlon! Not an actual one I grant you, but there’s about as much chance of finding an actual tri in Britain during the New Year as there is of me finding a pound in my bank account.
If I’d trained a bit harder inoff to Australia for the winter months and found races galore, and a whole bunch of new athletes to be beaten by. But no, I was too much of a laggard so I’m here, up to my knees in British floodwater, trying to be inventive and cobbling together my own events to keep myself entertained. So here’s what I did…