Episode 12 Multisport Agegrouper, Christina Dove

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Christina took up cycling late 2012 after climbing Kilimanjaro, when at a dinner party a friend said 'whats next?'. She had just got a lovely new Bianchi and Christina said, "oh I don't know, I may take up cycling".  With that she brought Christina a bike round and she fell on love with cycling. Christina did LEJOG in 2017 and has done a few big climbs in France.

Christina did the London Marathon for charity last year (purely for charity, almost from a standing start, she had run a 5k up to then) and thought it was a shame to waste the running legs so thought she would try duathlon. There was a fun event in Chichester in July last year so on she gave it a go. Was on such a high afterwards.

Christina was following a few age groupers on social and wondered if it was possible for her to qualify for GB.  She got in touch with Yiannis Christodoulou and he said 'go for it'. First job was to join BTF and enter a race. Her aim was to try and qualify in 2020 for 2021. Yiannis told Christina to enter Bedford last October. Once She had registered she did all kinds of research to see how fast she needed to be.

Christina turned up at Bedford on 13/10, awful conditions and only her second duathlon but managed to get a roll down place. The wait for the website to be updated was torture!

With that she got a coach (Yiannis had been doing me some run coaching but she felt she needed a cycling coach). They concentrated a lot on her running. She pitched up at Punta Umbria for her 3rd duathlon and came 11th in her AG, was delighted.

Christinas next goal is the world's but that's all a bit up in the air at the moment as sheI hasn't done any qualifiers or have a c/f.

Christina works 4 days week and has a pretty intense job and has just decided to drop to 3.5 days so she can fit training in.