Summary
WHEN he takes to the track at the UK Challenge Finals in Birmingham today, flanked by the cream of the amateur athletics world, there will be just one thing on Steve Mitchell's mind - winning the race. Ahead of him will stretch 1,500 metres of race track - all that stands between the 23-year-old Bristol University graduate and the chance to tick off his next milestone on the road to his ultimate dream of Olympic glory.
But it's not next year's London Olympics that are at the forefront of Steve's mind - it's the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro that offer his best chance of competing on the world stage. Steve has spent the past five years focused entirely on his dream - putting himself through a constant gruelling training schedule of 12 to 13 hours on the track each week, and all while completing a degree in paleontology at the same time.See the full content of this document
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Glory
"I certainly don't have the same kind of social life as I did when I was 18," laughs Steve, who originally hails from Cheshire.
"I've been running a bit al...See the full content of this document
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