Alison may have retired from international rowing but she is by no means sedentary. Released from the routine and rigour of being a full-time athlete she has learnt to dive, sail, windsurf, ski and swim open water, has run the London, Paris, Zurich and Brighton Marathons (fastest time 3.29), cycled Lands End to John O'Groats, won her first 100 mile cycle sportive, hiked hundreds of miles and climbed dozens of mountains here and abroad. Her adventures are self-planned and self-supported and many are solo. All are balanced around a busy work schedule because she believes you don't have to give up your day job to lead an adventurous life.

You might most recently have seen Alison in the Channel 4 TV Documentary 'Dangerous Jobs For Girls' where she teamed up with two other adverturous girls to take on one of the last bastions of male dominated work and 'man' a commercial fishing trawler in the South Australian Ocean. The programme was orignally filmed in 2008 but you can still see it on Channel 4 On Demand Series 1, Episode 3.

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