We love hearing about our triathletes in our region! Meet Amanda Hyatt

Name AMANDA HYATT

Club/s (if any):  

Brighton Triathlon Race Series and (currently) Mid Sussex Triathlon Club

What level of triathlete would you associate yourself with?

I’m not sure what it makes me but I’m generally very near the bottom of my age group – I am SLOW! My dreams of being competitive live only in my head these days – my closest competition is myself.

What or who made you try out triathlon? 

After several years enjoying endurance running I was looking to change things up a little and I thought the 3 disciplines would add a lot more variation and ‘challenge’ to my training. Being an endurance runner I immediately had eyes on endurance triathlon – I wish I’d tried a few sprints first lol

You mentioned you have tried the Ironman distance three times – what motivates you to race at this distance? 

Oh, as above, the ‘endurance’ bug still lives on. I enjoy the time on my own, I don’t mind the hours training and it simply seemed logical in my weird and crazy head to go from endurance running to endurance triathlon. Little did I know …  I’m also strangely fascinated by the psychology of endurance sports and couldn’t resist the challenge and the ‘experiment’. Sadly, my experimenting was not very successful, but hey, I made 3 start lines