race but also my first team race. The sense of camaraderie building up to the event at TW Towers has been terrific - the Fab Four have been giving us racing tips and the Triathletes World magazine team have been behind us every run, swim and cycle along
On the day that top British triathlete Helen Jenkins secured her London 2012 qualification slot with an inspiring win in the Dextro Energy Triathlon London, another team got ready to take on the Hyde Park course: The TW Relay Team.As the watch hands
. But first I needed to master the bike. I had help getting it fitted by Triathlete's World's resident bike enthusiast Art Director Marco Crisari. On a rainy lunch hour last week I shakily circled the office block under Marco's watch - much
poor man's John Wayne.Scroll forward to late spring 2011, when Team TW decided to take on the Hyde Park Triathlon. After working on the Triathlete's World website for a year, I knew that I could no longer blame cycling itself for my irrational hatred
, who was already twitching to do another race after taking part in the Dextro Energy Hyde Park Triathlon relay. And so, a few weeks later, I boarded the plane at Heathrow with only sheaf of Triathlete's World articles and my mounting hysteria to keep me