MOST teenagers embrace the school holidays as a chance to sleep until midday, but not Reece Harris.
The fifteen-year-old student is rising early each morning for triathlon training.
Reece is motivated by being recently selected to compete with the Western Australian state team at the 2016 School Sport Australian National Championships in Hervey Bay, Queensland.
Last time Reece went to the nationals in Bendigo, he came seventeenth.
“I’m hoping to do a lot better this time around because I wasn’t training as much then as I am now,” he said.
“I needed a coach, because what I was doing on my own wasn’t enough.”
Reece is now coached by Andrew Ivy from Elite Sports, and is Mr Ivy’s only junior client.
Also competing in the local Mandurah Triathlon Club, Reece’s triathlon training includes a rotation of swimming, running and cycling on different days, totalling about ten hours a week.
And that doesn’t even include his football training as part of the Peel Thunder Academy.
“My aim was to beat one person from each state, but now I’m hoping to top that,” Reece said.
Reece will travel to Hervey Bay with his team this Sunday, for the national triathlon competition running April 18-21.
