Jonny Brownlee still in pursuit of triathlon perfection ahead of Commonwealth Games tilt

Jonny Brownlee might have ‘completed' the Olympic medal set but is still racing and chasing his lifelong dream: the perfect triathlon. The 32-year-old memorably completed the set of Olympic medals with mixed relay gold in Tokyo having won individual silver and bronze at the previous two Games. Ad/> Brownlee stepped off the blue carpet and announced he was done and dusted over Olympic distance — like brother Alistair, he would step up to long-distance racing.

/> Triathlon'Kudos to Alex' — Race winner Wilde reacts to Esports Triathlon6 HOURS AGO First, Jonny's plan was to jet off on a long holiday and switch off from training. How did that go? «Not much of that really happened,» chuckled the Leeds star. «I planned but didn't book stuff and that was probably the mistake I made.

»I'm an endurance athlete, my default is to train. Looking back I probably did go back into training too quickly and I should have enjoyed the post-Tokyo period a bit more. «I wanted to carry on from a good Tokyo, to keep coming back and showing I can do it.» Among the things that turned Brownlee's head was the revelation from a reporter in interviews after the mixed relay that his run leg had been the fastest of the whole field.

That planted the seed for one of the sharpest U-turns in swim, bike, run history — a fact that his nearest and dearest won't let him forget. «My training partners and girlfriend have been telling me ‘you weren't going to do this, you weren't going to try and qualify,'» he said. «Hearing about how quick I'd run made me go, ‘wow, maybe I can do this again!'» We are now in the fourth epoch of Brownlee's 16-year odyssey in the sport and there are two secrets behind his next push.