A woman who struggled to run to the end of her road has now qualified for Team GB for the second time in four years.
Lizz Davidson was 24-years-old, overweight and struggled to run to the end of her road but in an amazing transformation, the now athlete has been offered a place in Team GB's duathlon team to compete in the Duathlon Championships in Romania this summer.
The mum-of-three underwent a lifestyle transformation and lost six stone before she competed in her first triathlon with her friends.
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After continuously coming in the top three in competitive events, she was told she should try qualifying for Great Britain's Age Group Team which compete at a non-elite level but have 20 different groups that people can qualify for depending on their age.
Lizz competed in her first triathlon in 2009, and just nine years later was competing in Glasgow at the European Championships.
Despite the former McDonald's employee having three children, she continued to train and commit to her training to ensure she didn't fall out of love with the sport.
She said: "It all started when I was a student and I was working part-time for McDonald's to get a wage. I put on weight with the lifestyle of a student where you're going out drinking and eating what you want, doing what you want and the weight just piled on.
"Then came a time when I just thought 'enough's enough'. I'd put like four stone on and I needed to lose weight. I didn't feel good in myself and I couldn't even run to the end of the road.
"I can remember it like it was yesterday. If someone said to me 'you're going to run a mile' it would have been like me running a marathon. I had to do aerobics once a week to build myself up and then when I felt confident enough I joined the gym.
"There were some friends at the gym who asked me to do a triathlon with them and I was just like 'oh yeh, whatever' but I did it, managed to get around and I loved it, hated it but loved it.
"That's what got me to love triathlons. I was training through pregnancies because I refused to let that stop me and I didn't want to put the weight back on so I trained safely and then in between my pregnancies I continued to do my triathlons. I kept fit."
Lizz now trains around her family time. The Southport born mum, who now lives in Preston, gets up in the early hours to ensure she does training before her daughter, one, and two sons, five and six, wake up.
She said: "A lot of athletes won't have children so young. A lot of them have train twice a day and do what they want.
"Whereas I have three children all under seven so to find the time train means I have to get up early at four o'clock in the morning to do my training around my family life."
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