Nigel Day
1. How did you get into Triathlon?
A 2am text message on 1st January 2003… suggesting a half ironman that August! Replied straight back; “why not, let’s do it!” The rest is history.
2. What training do you enjoy and what do you hate?
Enjoy early morning bike rides, running on roads I don’t know and sea swimming.
Hate cycling into the wind, at least nobody can hear you scream and shout at it!
3. Give us an insight into your day dreams when you are out training on your own?
Holidays, and random calculations that I can’t even do standing still with paper and a pencil.
4. Give us one top training tip?
If you’re going for a cycle or a run, tell somebody where you are going. It doesn’t matter to them but you can’t come home until you’ve done it. You’re only cheating yourself
5. Talk us through your best and worst tri events to date?
Worst has to be the first – an Olympic event with no wetsuit, no idea and duck sh*t squelching through the toes at the old Trentham lake swim!
Best – Chrissie Wellington lending me her bike pump in Frankfurt 2008 (we’re best mates now!), and the event and always seeing family and friends on the touchline, sorry, pavement!
6. If you were doing (or thinking of doing) a triathlon for the first time, which one piece of advice would you give?
Check out the bike course, if only on a map, so there are no nasty surprises; know where you exit transition from and don’t panic!
7. What’s your ultimate triathlon dream (e.g. win a race, complete an Ironman)?
To do a run section without the knees hurting…
8. What’s your favourite piece of tri kit/gadget that you own?
Unlike some others, it’s not wearing the wetsuit around the house, it’s things I don’t actually own…aside from my ‘physio’ and the support team, it’s probably the timing chip and the felt pen numbers on the arm - because that means the waiting is over and it’s game on!
9. What’s your post race indulgence (food and drink)?
A pint, or three, and a bbq!
10. Finally, who from KTC would you most like to pip on the finish line?
Having only just joined KTC, I’m completely unaware of the ‘pecking order’ but if there is somebody to be pipped we’ll give it a shot!
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