Megan Hamill only learned how to swim 8 months ago and bought a bike off of Facebook marketplace so she could train, has just qualified for the Ironman World Championships - now that's dedication 👏
A student has thrown herself in the deep end in taking on a mammoth sporting challenge.But in a matter of months, she’ll be tasked with swimming 2.4 miles as she competes in the the Ironman World Championships.As volunteers rushed to get her an ambulance, she told them she needed screws to fix her broken bike seat, not medical attention.
Megan finished the race in Kaernten-Klagenfurt, a city in the Austrian Alps, in 15 hours and 26 minutes. Miss Hamill said: ‘I couldn’t swim in October and I trained on a second-hand road bike I bought from Facebook Marketplace, so I genuinely am ecstatic to make the World Championships.
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