I am in full-time training as a professional triathlete.
Triathlon - for more info, visit TRIATHLONPHIL.COM
My brothers were in to it and they have got me hooked!
I started training full time in March 2009, but did my first tri in 2008
I was self trained up until September this year when I joined forces with Francesco Rizzo, an Italian who won Bronze with one of his athletes at the Olympics in Beijing 2008
When I was younger I was a keen athlete, becoming Kent Champion at 800m, 1500m and 4x400m, and also represented Kent at national level from 1998 to 2002 inclusive. In Triathlon it would have to be being selected to represent the GB Age Group Team at the World Championships Grand Final on the Gold Coast in Australia.
My aims are to: 2010 - break in to the British Triathlon Federation Elite Foundation Squad; 2011 - being part of the GB team, compete internationally and continue to move up the ranks; 2012 - compete and excel in the ITU World Championship Series to gain a place on the London Olympic Team, and of course win the Olympics in my home country.
Being selected to represent Great Britain at the Grand Final for the Triathlon World Champs, no doubt!
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Every day, and, dependant on the period training programme, up to 4 times a day.
It would be a fantastic help. It would give me chance to pay for professional coaches, nutritionists, sports massage therapists, visit training camps, improve my triathlon equipment and compete in more events. Given that all of this would make me a much more competitive athlete, any sponsorship would have a direct influence on my ability to reach the London Olympic Games.
Sponsorship is just as much about being associated with the individual as the activity itself. On a personal level, the business would be backing an individual with a burning desire to succeed, and the talent necessary to just that, in whatever he does. Having genuine confidence in oneself and the value of the product that is being offered is key to a successful business, and I feel I represent that sentiment as an individual. With regards to Triathlon, it is a fantastic sport to get involved with: it is the fastest growing of all the Olympic sports in the UK and demonstrates values that any business would be proud to call its own: dedication, skilled multi-disciplinarianism, technical perfection and the tenacity to put in 10% more effort than the next competitor in a bid to succeed.
I also have a website with more than 200 vistors a week, triathlonphil.com, have been in local newspapers already (Kent Messenger, Downs Mail) who have done stories on my aim to get to London 2012 and my search for sponsorship, as well as other things, so there is already significant exposure waiting for a potential sponsor.
Ghandi. Whatever the world threw at him, no matter how tough the challenge, he would fight for the just cause until it was accepted; if the rest of humanity followed his erudite rhetoric and behaviour, being as tenacious, moral and focused on solidarity a
Focus less on man-made products - sportswear, prescribed medicines, sports technology - and go back to nature and focus on your inner energy and technique. Eat natural foods & use natural products, feel the natural energy flow through your body (Tai Chi, Chi Kung, or any Oriental Philosophy is a great way to understand what this is), and practice a natural (and consequently more efficient) technique in your chosen sport during every second of your training sessions and competitions.
I am an admirer of anything that is complete or balanced within itself, i.e. isn't fanatical about one aspect ignoring another just as important. Triathlon has a natural balanced beauty to it: endurance as well as speed, efficiency as well as power, mental and physical intelligence and strength. It works almost every muscle in the body, while ironically you only improve as an athlete when you are doing nothing (recuperating). An olympic triathlon is rigid in terms of the distances and disciplines involved, but it demands that you are flexible to feel and judge what you're capable of and push your own limits as much as you can, always with an eye on the athletes competing around you.
I am supported by rathergood.com who have decided to help promote my olympic goal, but this is purely on an informational basis - I have no sponsors in a financial sense... yet!
