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As the members of the Oakley Transitions Ironman Team began limbering up for their final training camp, Chris Bennett caught up with the UK's Fiona Bosher

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Bosher left the last camp invigorated and raring to go and returned to the UK ready to complete the hundreds of hours of training to ready herself for the Monaco Ironman 70.3 (mile) triathlon in September.

Her job with the Matheson group in the Hampshire area means she works out of different practices and is constantly on the move, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for a triathlete in training.

Cycle commuting

'My cycling has been good, I'd never have dreamed of cycling 22 miles to work but the last training camp motivated me to do so,' she says. She and her husband have devised a complicated schedule - whereby she takes the bike to work in the car, and he drives the car home - to allow her to cycle several days a week. Hampshire isn't exactly mountainous either, with only a a few short, sharp hills breaking up the flat, it is nothing like Monaco.

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