I grew up in athletics. After trying all the typical activities like ballet, gymnastics, brownies etc. I tagged along with my older sister to a local athletics club. After a failed training session at the larger Hull club (never take me there again!) we tried Hull Spartans which was a small athletics club closer to home with a Cinder track  I loved it. My coach Mr T was an athletics enthusiast who’d married the sport. Fast forward 10 years and he would be coming to our house for Christmas D...