To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia. . . in public. . . You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself. . . You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed
Triathlon has quite a short season. It only runs from May to September so there's a lot of time when you're not racing. So I try to set myself the target of doing a certain amount of training every week and things like that.