TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019

WORTH A TRY

After completing his first London Triathlon with only two weeks’

training, Andrew Griffin may have caught the bug

‘The journey to the finish was among the most testing and rewarding of my life’

I am stood on a pontoon, wrapped in neoprene and looking like an alien, wondering whether I should
question my life choices. This is the beginning of the London Triathlon: my first – and one that I only
decided to enter two weeks ago – and for which I have done almost no training.

Just over an hour and a half later, I am sweaty and gleeful and stood in the ExCeL exhibition centre in
London’s Docklands. I am a triathlete, I am wearing my first medal, I am being congratulated – and I am

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