'Dream job' drives Potter for more triathlon success

"It is just the dream job for me to be honest."

Beth Potter made the switch to triathlon from athletics in 2017 and has enjoyed a stellar career.

The Glaswegian can list two Olympic bronze medals, as well as World and European golds among her glittering array of achievements.

Now 34, her hunger to succeed remains undiminished.

"I love it and it just makes it easy for me to get out of bed and do it," she said of her gruelling training schedule.

"I love getting up every day and seeing where my limits are at."

This is a busy summer for Potter who is currently number one in the world rankings and second in the World Triathlon Championship Series standings.

She is looking to improve on the latter in July when the WTCS visits Hamburg and then London, the first time the UK capital will have hosted elite-level triathlon racing since 2015.

The Scot is aiming build on her encouraging start to the year, one which is even more impressive given she has been dealing with an injury.

"I tore my plantar and I had a stress response in my left foot which I did at the end of last year," she explained.

"It is still bothering me a bit now, so that has just been quite hard.

"It has just been a season to manage it and find where the limit is with it a little bit. We have been able to do that quite well but we are just going to have to take it week-by-week and race-by-race at the moment still."

With the qualification window for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles now open, there is plenty at stake over the coming months.

"It is still a bit too far out to be really focusing on that," she said.

"It's like studying for an exam too far out, I think you run out of steam a bit. I am just enjoying training, enjoying racing and not looking too far ahead.

'Obviously it is a big goal of mine but I am just focusing on the present and not getting too far ahead of myself."