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Simon Collins

Simon Collins

19 October 2019

9:00 AM

19 October 2019

9:00 AM

For aesthetic reasons I did not participate in this year’s Sydney Skinny, the all-nude fund-raising harbour swim organised by my friend and award-winning Five of My Life podcaster Nigel Marsh. But I did take part in my first triathlon, and still have the bruises. If you don’t think swimming is a full contact sport, tri an athlon.

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