• A few more results: 3rd at Provincial Open Water Swim champs, 9th at first LifeTime Fitness (MN) and 10th at the second attempt at the 70.3 distance (Calgary 70.3)
• Ayesha has another great finish with less than 1 week of rest. A 3rd at ITU Continental Cup Coteau du Lac.
• Ayesha finished 2nd to Lisa Bentley at Muskoka Long course.
• Published! Ayesha writes an article for the great magazine Triathlon Magazine Canada http://triathlonmagazine.ca/
• 2009: Ayesha turns her focus to a mix of Olympic Distance and 70.3. See the Schedule page
• Ayesha will be hosting a series of Women's Learn to Ride clinics from the Toronto Trek Store in the spring of 2009 check in at http://trektoronto.ca/ for more information
• Ayesha will be leading the Toronto Women's Only Half Marathon training run

I grew up in Midland Ontario on what I now affectionately call the Funny Farm. My parents made sure they exposed us to as much as they could when I was young. I competed in chess tournaments, I took Jazz lessons, I cooked by my mom's side (ok, I mostly measured ingredients and licked the bowl), I went to nature camps…but it was the sports that I loved. The competitive sports. I loved the feeling of winning. I loved setting tangible goals and reaching them. I loved the unbiased result of timed sports.

Sport is the frame if my life is a picture. It has always been there and it has held everything together. From age 8 until 12 I swam competitively, then I decided to run with a competitive track team from 12 until 16. At the age of 16 I was recruited by the national triathlon team coach at the time and turned my focus to triathlon. I competed seriously for 4 years, once winning the Junior National Triathlon title and racing on the national team at 3 World Championships.

Once I started studying Engineering at University I could not continue to excel at the sport of triathlon with the time I had available to train. Instead I decided that swimmi ng with the U of T Varsity Team was more manageable. This turned out to be a good decision for many reasons. First, I excelled under Byron MacDonald and Linda Keiffer. I came away from my 4 years having qualified for and medaling at CIAUs. Second, the sport of triathlon became draft legal, which meant to be a top competitor you had to be a top swimmer.

Upon graduating, I took 2 years to get back into the sport at a local and national level, winning a provincial age group title in the process. Working with a team - including the coaching team at LifeSport, bike fit specialist Steve Neal, doctors, a sport psychologist, a nutritionist - on every facet of my race I have been able to move up from being globally 'unranked' to being in the top 75 in the world in 2 short years.I have raced to a World Champs bronze medal, 3 ITU podium placements, was named to the 2005 World Championships National Team and was named to the 2006 Canadian National Elite Team.