Eleanor Standen

Eleanor Standen of Lincolnshire: There are runners and there are runners and then there’s the awesome Eleeanor. She sprints, she cycles, she swims: But she also has to climb an awful lot as she’s so often on the podium.

When most of us are guzzling chocolate, trashing pastries and sitting by the TV with soles well raised, she is biking up some Godawful mountain, clawing through a shark infested lake and then running as if chased by rabid hyenas.

She is yet another systemic synthesizer, with a memory like the wordiest Thesaurus. Her urge to make her clients happy borders on religion. The word ‘focused’ comes to mind. She aims, she shoots, she conquers.