Alice has had a decorated career; a three-time European medallist and Ironman 70.3 champion, a World Amateur Spring Champion, seven-time ultramarathon winner and British 30-mile trail champion. She also set a course record in the 43-mile St Peter’s Way ultra in 2020.
A combination of loving the simplicity of just running and getting frustrated with the high-risk, high-pressure environment of triathlon lead her to retire from it in 2019 and she now focuses on a career in running.
After having had races and plans cancelled last year, Alice has more recently been halted in her tracks by long Covid. It’s put a stop to any running for three months and seems to have settled in her lungs. Thankfully, she’s now seeing some progress to recovery, having been prescribed a steroid inhaler by her GP and is able to walk and do light work at the gym, in combination with a lot of rest.
If nothing else, it’s been a good opportunity to look back on a successful sporting career and to set herself new challenges for the future.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
When she looks back at her childhood inspirations, sport was a family affair; her dad was an accomplished amateur marathon runner, her mum was a swimmer, and Alice made county level in both disciplines during her schooldays. Despite describing her sporting start as low-key, her ambitions were not. “I knew I wanted to be an elite athlete and my goal, like for many people, was to go to the Olympics,” she says.
70/80 miles training per week is the limit for Alice to stay injury-free
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