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On this episode we speak to a Brit Abroad, Alison Smith, who lives and works in Perth Australia, she is a health and fitness coach and owns Sunshine Health and Fitness, where she offers a range of coaching for personal training and multisport.
Alison growing up as a kid, states was not a sporty child really- hated running, only swam breaststroke and used a bike to hang around with friends .
She started going to the gym after uni and got bored after a while & decided she needed to put the newly gained fitness to a purpose.
Alison played at triathlon for a few years- from about age 27-34. Mostly pool swim events and very low key.
She then rowed competitively between 2003-2006, mostly in Coxless 4s, winning gold medals ant women’s Henley and the national championships in 2005 and silver in 2006. After that her crew decided to get married, have children and get a life, and she had a new man in her life who was keen on triathlons, so she got back into it.
She confesses that her first open water swim race was at Blenheim in 2007 and she did breastroke the whole way - hated it!!
Alison continued to play at various distances but never a full long distance, and finally decided to get a coach in 2017 to help her qualify for the world champs. Always sprint distance.
Her first international was Europeans in Glasgow 2018, then Gold Coast, Lausanne, Montreal and Munich.
Alison is on her way home and by summer this year she will be living back in the UK, we speak about her experience over in Oz and why after 5 years she has decided to return home.
hope you enjoy Alisons story.
check her website out https://www.sunshine-hf.com
and follow her on Instagram @sunshinecoach
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