Article: Lauren Mackessack-Leitch - Battling mind and body through Ironman
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This article was released March 18 2021, by Ashley Stanley in LockerRoom
Battling mind and body through Ironman
Lauren Mackessack-Leitch represented Great Britain in figure skating, left the sport with ongoing injuries and mental battles but is back on track in a new sport and going the distance.
Last year, Lauren Mackessack-Leitch was given an ultimatum by her partner.
He told Mackessack-Leitch, a physiotherapist who is competing in her first Ironman: "‘Do you want to finish the Ironman being taken away in an ambulance because you fractured something or you passed out because you can’t get through it?’,” she remembers.