I love how exercise makes me feel – stronger, fitter, happier, healthier and more confident. I have learned so much through personal experience, such as recovering from a serious bike accident while training for the Ironman 70.3 World Championship. In January 2017 I was out on a training ride and turned a blind corner of a narrow country lane and the whole road was a sheet of ice! I knew I was going to hit the ground. I knocked myself out and sustaining a broken back, hip, pelvis and shoulder. Following a couple of weeks rest I started my rehab. It started with gentle pilates movements and a whole load of pain killers. As the weeks progressed, I managed to get back on my bike but this time it was indoors on a turbo trainer. My arm was in a sling and I needed a little step to get onto my race bike as my back, hip and pelvis were still painful. I was processing with my rehab and pilates helped relieve some of my pain and symptoms. My physio was pain management and I had rock tape to help my hematoma, which was the size of a small football. I couldn’t wear my own clothes as I was so swollen. A few weeks later I was able to walk on the treadmill and added some light resistance work to my pilates practise. I was taking less pain relief at this point and started to feel much better. I started my own rehab in the gym and progressing as my body felt better. At this point, I started to think that I may still make the start line of the 70.3 ironman World Championships in USA. This became my main focused goal for my rehab. Every week I got stronger and was able to start swimming, running and had got on my bike and rode out of the roads, petrified, but I was out of the roads. I was given given the pleasure of spending a morning ride with the cycling legend Sean Yates.

In October 2017, I toed the line in Chattanooga for the Ironman 70.3 World Championships!! Yes, I made it! My next objective was to get to the finish line and to enjoy every minute between the start and finish. I finished! I got my medal, I cried….alot! I wasn’t anywhere near my race pace, I was held together with Rock Tape and had taken pain killers throughout the race. I made it! My physio knowledge helped with my rehab, my pilates practice gave me the gentle movements to start my rehab and then the strength to progress my rehab to the gym and helped manage my pain. I would never have made to Chattanooga without my rehab and pilates.

The following year I had shoulder surgery and a few weeks later I ruptured a disc in my neck, which caused me to loss most of the use in my right arm. I had spinal surgery to replace my verbal disc. Guess what? I used clinical pilates to rehab myself back from both shoulder and spinal surgery.

I still practice pilates most days to maintain the back, hip and shoulder pain/mobility. My injuries have not limited me at all, I still train hard 6days a week and I do Crossfit 4 days a week.

I have also completed the toughest foot race on Earth “The Marathon des Sables” which is a 7 day foot race across the Sahara desert, all self sufficient! And I was born with Klippel Trenaunay Syndrome (A rare vascular condition that affects my left leg) and I've been able to overcome many medical challenges and continue to train & compete in triathlon races around the world.

In April 2019 I opened PhysioFit Pilates & Physio Studio and I love how my physio/pilates community has grown from a handful of local runners who started mat classes in my house to now having a thriving physio clinic and pilates studio.

I can help you, you don’t have to be a runner, cross fitter, cyclist etc.. if you have pain or an injury or you just feel like your body needs to move, I can help! I understand the progress of healing, rehabbing and using exercise for health and fitness.

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