Hayley Simmonds shares her uplifting transformation from student and rower, to elite bike racer. | dG1faEFzbnBJR0NjNk0
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00:02 - I met Hayley when we were both studying
00:03 at the University of Cambridge in 2007.
00:07 - I spent many a day, many an early morning
00:09 down by the river.
00:10 - I did university rowing, struggled a little bit.
00:13 I was a bit upset with my exam results.
00:16 - It looked like she wasn't going to continue rowing anymore.
00:18 She was looking for a new sport.
00:21 I kind of encouraged her to have a go at cycling.
00:24 - I don't know where I'd be if Mark hadn't convinced me
00:27 to get on a bike.
00:29 It really has changed my life.
00:30 - I'm Hayley Simmons.
00:32 I'm double elite national time trial champion
00:35 and Commonwealth Games and European Games bronze medalist.
00:39 - I came into it late, pretty unfit, overweight.
00:44 - I got better and better.
00:45 I wanted to get faster and faster
00:47 and things got out of control, I guess.
00:50 - Pick the speed up a bit.
00:52 - When you're a couple and one's coaching the other,
00:54 that can cause friction.
00:56 - Not in a million years, dear.
00:57 - New wife, happy life, Mark, remember that.
01:00 (laughing)
01:03 - You know, now I can say I'm one of probably
01:07 not that many people ever to have won
01:10 a Commonwealth Games medal for England.
01:12 - Hayley's a perfect athlete.
01:14 She could lay out a very respectable power number
01:16 and just keep going.
01:17 - No other woman has gone under 19 minutes
01:22 for a 10 mile time trial.
01:23 - Three, two, one, go.
01:26 - Go.
01:27 - So what I'd be doing if I wasn't cycling?
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