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COURTNEY: “Coming from my background, obviously being an Olympic triathlete and professional athlete, mine is more of a mentoring role. I do see myself more as a mentor; although, even that term mightn’t be the best way to put it. I’m more like a bank of knowledge, if you like. I like to impart on people who are highly talented in their own different areas, but want to get into endurance sport for either fitness or fun, or have other personal goals. If I can help make that a little bit easier for them through my 20 years of experience at the top level, then that’s my definition of being a ‘coach’, I guess.”

WILL: “I’m so far out of my comfort zone with triathlon. I’ve done between seven-eight Olympic-distance triathlons now, and quite a few sprint ones. I’m familiar with the way it all works, but I’ve taken it up another level now. This was the most serious I’ve treated a triathlon, while still competing at a reasonably low level. But I enjoyed the process of improving my fitness and with that, I’d noticed all these other little details which I needed to make sure were crossed and dotted. You can overlook a lot of them and maybe do an injury or something silly.”