Russ Cook

How's the training going?

Well, I had a baby four weeks ago, so...

getting a good amount of sleep deprivation training in.

But no, mate, I'm really looking forward to the Ironman in Leeds.

It's going to be a bit of a different test for me.

Obviously, I've done the running before, but the swimming and the cycling is a whole new kettle of fish.

Okay, sum up parenthood after four weeks for me.

Do you know what, mate?

I think...

If I was talking really honestly, when she was born, I've never been struck by like, it literally felt like a lightning rod of emotion.

I don't know how it is with your kids.

It sounds quite soppy, but I've never felt so much love in my heart.

Some of my favourite things at the moment are

watching em my missus and and poppy our little girl just asleep in the mornings or in in the evenings they're just like cuddled up there asleep or i'll dance around with her in the kitchen send her off well stick coldplay on the speakers and i'll have a little sing and a dance of her and um oh mate there's yeah a real deep sense of like fulfillment from the last four weeks which has been really nice actually

I would definitely think, I mean, I am only four weeks in, but I would definitely think so.

I think it gives a new sort of responsibility as well.

You know, it's not...

I think even when I look back at some of the challenges I've done before, there's definitely an element of I'm doing it for a higher purpose, I'm doing it for other people.

But I think now that I've got my little girl in the world, there's this sense of I'm her father, I want to protect her, I want to guide her in all the right ways.

And I know that a lot of that is down to how well...