Alison Gill

Triple Olympian at rowing - 1988, 92 and 96 Olympic games - and currently a Business Psychologist and Entrepreneur by profession. Alison retired from Olympic sport to start her own business. She has a passion for people and in understanding the mechanics of how they develop themselves to be the best they can be. Sport is currently Alison's relaxation therapy and yet helps to push her out of her comfort zone. Alison acknowledges that every time she undertakes a challenge she learns something new about herself. Challenges outside of rowing are new to her however. In 2005 Alison climbed Mont Blanc, in 2006 she completed an Ironman traithlon, and, in 2007 she will run three marathons - one on skis, one in snowshoes and one in trainers. She has never run a stand alone marathon: being a rower, she feels she is not built for marathon running. So why the North Pole Marathon for a debut? Despite hating the cold, she has simply always wanted to go to the North Pole. Two weeks later, Alison will run the London Marathon and she ponders which of the two will be fastest, most exhilarating, most difficult and most enjoyable?