We got married on the 10 October 2009. We picked October because it’s off-season for competing. We were both at World Championships that year, and that would have been our month off.
So it meant we could get married and go on honeymoon and not miss any big races. And a lot of our friends at the time would have been athletes as well so it was a convenient time of the year for everyone.
The weather on the day was unreal. We had a lot of athletes and friends over from Spain, friends and family over from Australia, and guests over from the UK, and people were wearing sunglasses at the church. We were blessed.
I was thinking about asking Marian to marry me for a long time. When I was training and doing races I started gravitating…