Episode 49 Dave Brown

Send us Fan MailDave  originally got into multisport following a knee operation in 2017. This was his que to end playing football, and so took up cycling as part of his knee rehab. Dave  was just cycling 8-10 miles to work and back again each day. His love for it grew to the point he bought a road bike and started entering a few local Dartmoor sportives. In 2018, after doing a couple of Parkruns Dave decided to join his local Torbay Triathlon Club. He won the club championship (age cat result) in his first triathlon  (Torbay Triathlon), and just missed out on a podium (by 2 seconds) in the overall race results. (Sportiva Events Torbay Triathlon). Dave entered a couple of duathlons, as he is  stronger at running and cycling than at swimming. Again he was able to claim top 10 overall positions in his first few events.  At the start of 2020 he met and teamed up with his current coach Phil Wylie. He was confident working alongside him that Dave could qualify for the GB Age Group team in sprint duathlon.Dave raced a qualifier at Bedford 2 months later and claimed a qualifying spot for The 2021 World Champs. It wasn’t until November 2021 (due to covid) that he was able to complete his first world championship in Aviles, finishing 19th.He has also qualified for this years European championships in Bilbao.  Currently recovering from a fractured shoulder blade, following a cycling crash. But plans to a race some more qualifiers later in the year, and look forward to Bilbao. It has been a bit of a meteoric rise having only bought a bike to help with his knee rehab. Dave still feels relatively inexperienced in the multisport world, but he is  loving it and learning with each race. we discuss sponsorship in this podcast as dave has  managed to get some good sponsorship deals including John Lewis & Waitrose, his local Torbay Leisure Centre and Stephanie at Sunshine Nutrition, as well as being an ambassador for Sundried. hope you enjoy Daves journey.You 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 on Instagram amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBYouTube AMP GBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: agegroupmultisportpodcastSupport the show