Alan Davison

Alan is a lifelong athlete whose competitive career began at schoolboy level. He ran in school cross country events and raced bikes and time trials at schoolboy level. He enjoyed moderate success in running, cycling and then naturally fell into Triathlon when it arrived in the UK during the 80’s. Alan has run countless races (well over 200) from 1500m to marathon and every triathlon distance from sprint to Ironman. “ I still feel as competitive today as I always have when I put my toe on any start line.” He decided to enter the North Pole marathon in early 2014 whilst browsing the web and planning a solo polar trip. His philosophy in sport is “if it is hurting me, then it must be killing them”. During the latter part of 2014 Alan's mother was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph system. She embarked on a course of chemotherapy in the last quarter of 2014 and to date has responded superbly well to treatment. She still has a couple of courses of Radiotherapy to have but on the whole she is on the mend and doing very well indeed. This year Alan will be raising money for Cancer Research in the hope that more and more people will benefit from new treatments that valuable research brings about.