Heather Fell, Olympic silver medallist, writes about her life in the media and sports world.

IT is that time of year when we are bombarded with sport, there is almost too much on offer. I am struggling to choose which sports to prioritise and that is just the participating, right now we are being spoilt for choice as spectators too.

Even those uninterested in sport cannot have missed the build up and start of the football European Championships, sadly though some of that is probably due to the wrong reasons. We have heard far more in the press around the violence off the pitch than we have of England’s efforts on it. This has also detracted our attention from a different yet extremely significant England result — the rugby in Australia. The England rugby team secured a pleasantly surprising victory over the Wallabies in the first test, on the same day the football players only managed a draw in their European opener.

I have hardly had chance to keep up with England’s efforts both in France and Australia as I am spending as much time as possible riding both horses and bicycles. I have two events looming ever closer at a rate of knots that do not allow for the desired training. With just over two weeks until my triathlon, miles on the bike are my main focus; so much so that for some absurd reason I agreed to enter a cycling time trial. I thought 50 miles best effort would be perfect training, however, that was before I realised it was ‘A’ on the A38, ‘B’ at 5.30 on a Sunday morning and ‘C’ – full of professionals with all the gear.

I did stick to my original reasoning and battled it out on my own with countless riders flying past me, it must be valuable miles in the bank even with my lack of speed. My other challenge is far more imminent and daunting, in just a few day’s time I will be playing in my first ever polo match in front of thousands of spectators at the Gloucester Festival of polo.