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Maria David

From her local club run to the Olympic Games, how Lisa Brambini broke the mould

Lisa Brambini with her Serotta race bike.

"So far today I've done 32,500 steps - my average is 37,000. I was up running on Ilkley Moor earlier, and it was fabulous," says a refreshed Lisa Brambani, speaking to me by video call from her home in Yorkshire.

Fifty-eight-year-old Brambani and her husband Michael moved in a year ago after a lengthy restoration project. Extreme DIY and garden design have become her passion, so much so that she also restored her daughter Abby Mae Parkinson's house a few years ago.

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