Kirsty Marie Walker

Based in Taunton near the M5, Kirsty works alongside her partner, professional athlete Kit Walker (TTT coach) in their coaching business where together they are able to offer a full range of squad sessions as well as other triathlon specific services such as bike fitting and swim video analysis in their endless pool at their Performance Centre at South Petherton. As well as racing herself at middle and full distance, Kirsty has worked with a number of athletes from complete novices looking to do their first ever triathlon through to experienced age groupers achieving team GB slots. She has a keen interest in race fuelling and nutrition as well as the need for tailoring coaching and training for the specific requirements of the female physiology.

I started my journey into Triathlon from a running background. Having focused on my career as a teacher and raising two mini people, sport was non-existent until I reached nearly 30. Overweight and under active, I represent a large proportion of athletes that flick a switch one day and say 'something has to change'. Couch to 5k came and went, as did ticking off the distances through local races, each time increasing the distance to prove to myself 'I can'. After several marathons I turned to ultra trail running.

Until running wasn't enough. Could I front crawl ?....No! Could I ride a bike ?..... barely! So why not take up triathlon? I was determined to master three disciplines instead of one and took to open water swimming and long distance cycling sportives before putting the three together.