Episode 67 Featuring Brian Stokes

Send us Fan MailOn Episode 67 we speak to Age grouper Brian Stokes.Brian's played rugby and cricket at school and joined the Royal Marine Commandos at 17. He didn’t have much time for too much sport in the beginning within that career as he was away on operations or on exercise. A little later into his career he took an opportunity to represent the Navy at Bobsleigh, which he did and then did 3 inter-service championships. he even had an opportunity to race for the junior GB squad.From there he moved base where the Royal Marines started playing rugby league. Brian got involved and eventually represented the Marines and Navy. Brian left the forces and joined the fire service. He continued to play rugby league in a semi pro league. After a while he switched codes again and played both Union and league for about 6 years. Ended up starting a club in the town he lived in and continued playing for a few more seasons. During Brians time in the fire service, he got into cycling after a tragic accident of a colleague. The team cycled to Bournemouth and Brian did it on a borrowed bike. It was this event that gave Brian the bugler cycling. A colleague and former para on his watch, asked Brian to do a triathlon and then it became a bit of a competition between them. They raced sprints first and then aimed to qualify for the worlds in Vancouver which they both did. Unfortunately due to finances he couldn't take his spot. From there he was pretty hooked.He carried on with rugby and represented the county and Royal Navy at rugby Union in the vets and he  still plays today even around his Triathlon training. I took up track cycling for a while but missed the challenge of multi sport so signed up for another challenge and did an Ultra. That gave me the bug once more so completed another Ironman distance event. Brian left the fire service for the police, but found that it wasn’t really working for him so an opportunity came for him to go back to the Royal Marines as a full time reservist working with cadets and schools which is where he is now. please enjoy this pod and if you do please leave a review, like and comment.you can follow Brian on Instagram @stokesy72if your interested in the Triathlon Guys Events duathlon in March you can get 15% off using the code AMP15 their website is https://www.thetriguys.co.ukand you can find them on instagram @thetriguys_coachingYou can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms Find us on Instagram @amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: [email protected] the show