Alison Patrick

Alison completed the triathlon in Rio, With Hazel Smith, her guide athlete, ‘Cos she’s visually impaired, not solo, And so needs Hazel to see the beat. She comes from Dunfermline, Scotland, Hazel comes from Edinburgh, capital, She loves to sing whilst a cooking hand, And worked as a physiotherapist vital. She wanted to be a runner, but injuries, Prevented this, so she took up triathlon, With her friends’ persuasion, frivolities, In 2014 it quickly became her profession. Alison collected the bronze in Kitzbühel, Austria, at the ETU European Champs, And still in that year, 2014, a gold bushel, In Edmonton at the ITU World Champs. 2015, and Alison struck pure gold again, At the ETU European Champs, Geneva, And then at the Chicago ITU World den, She took for the two of ‘em another silver. 2016 and the ITU Worlds in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Alison won gold; She trains in Loughborough’s stadium, And was born in 1987 as eighties bold.