Episode 17 Multisport Agegrouper Karina Kaufmann

Send us Fan MailKarina Kaufmann a mum to 4 girls.  She states never having a  "proper career" but has done lots of little things along the way.As a kid I Karina was always very active and running about doing something.  She was the only girl at school to ride a bike to school (She went to an all girls school at the top of a hill!).  She loved all the usual school sports, but preferred the non-team sports like fencing.  But her ultimate passion was ski racing.Before her girls were born my passion was Chemistry.  She taught for a year and then went back to Uni to do a PhD.  Then she had the kids and in-between "mummy duties" She worked as a Doula.  In 2016 she decided to combine my love of training and her "spare time" to work as a PT.Karina did her first triathlon (Blenheim place) in 2011 and she was HOOKED!   She had always wanted to try one ever since   a friend had told her how they had done one.  Karina had 2 daughters then and sadly had 2 miscarriages and need to do something for herself and aIso to have a distraction through that difficult  time.  She became absorbed in the experienced which made her feel great; She did 5 races that year....the last of which she realised she had fallen pregnant with twins!Karina didn't manage to race again until 2014, but once she got going again nothing could stop her.... she admits that her friend had created a "triathlon monster"   not really that fast, but she was obsessed!In 2017 Karinas  training partner suggested she try for the GB AG team, so she entered Eton Dorney......and finally managed to get a roll down place 4 weeks before ITU Rotterdam - she states it was sheer luck!  However hooked she was before Rotterdam, once she had worn my first GB trisuit (she came 17th, and was thrilled) she became even more driven.....Karina wanted to qualify for everything.....and so started her mission!2018 she raced ITU Fyn sprint du and came 10th.2019 was her first international podium at ETU Targu Mures (silver) in F35-39 sprint du. Karina also raced at ITU Lausanne olympic distance tri (but the race didn't really go to plan so missed top 20 place by a VERY long way).2020 - was SO SO SO lucky to race in ETU Punta umbria as we all were  (in new AG F40-44) - took sliver in standard Du, missed the title by 11s!Karina loves helping to run AG news on Instagram with David Pearson and  thinks the whole AG scene is very special. You can follow Karina on Instagram @karina.kaufmann_adventures and Age_Group_NewsYou can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GBFind us Instagram amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBYouTube GBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: [email protected] the show