Eighteen months ago, Alex Goodier says she was 14 stone overweight and decided to do something about it. After her colleagues gave her a mountain bike she found a personal trainer, Darren Fuller, and set about losing three stone.
Then she signed up for a triathlon, which her company, The Access Group, enters every year. She originally planned to cycle as part of a team, but on an outing with her colleagues, fortified by wine, she entered the full "sprint" distance - a 750m swim, 19.8km bike and 5.4km run.
Triathlon was not an obvious choice. "I had not ridden a bike since the age of nine - turns out you can forget," she says. "I am petrified of open water, black water, and I'm not a strong swimmer."
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