One of my best friends this year decided that he could sadly no longer be with us. The pain he must have been under was simply too much, and when I found out, it floored me.

Shaun was an amazing friend, and out of everybody I know, he would of been one of the last people you would have expected this to happen to, which has been the hardest thing to deal with.

In his memory, on July 4th 2027, I'll be attempting to break 10 hours for a full ironman distance triathlon at Challenge Roth in Bavaria, Germany.

The money will be for Silence Between Sirens, a mental health initiative in the United Kingdom that supports frontline emergency service workers as well as Movember, the mens mental health support charity

It's not the day itself that will be difficult, it'll be the crazy amount of training to fit in around family, work and other responsibilities that will be hard.

Shaun always said to me "you could easily do a sub-10hr ironman" - I always laughed and just simply said "I doubt it".....

Let's see if he was right after all :)