Ayesha Bharucha recently won the 1st edition of the Deccan Triathlon, organized by Kolhapur Sports Club on 29th October, 2017. Participating in the Olympic category comprising of 1.5km Swim, 40 km Cycling and 10km Running Ayesha finished 1st in the female category and 10th overall, clocking a time of 2 hours, 49 minutes. The sport includes different levels of difficulty – Super Sprint, Sprint, Olympic, Half Ironman and Ironman. Ayesha has been training for the triathlons under coach and Founder of Motiv8 Coaching, Atul Godbole, since August 2017. Speaking to Parsi Times, Ayesha said, “Training for a triathlon is not easy. It involves a lot of time, expense, balancing between my family, training and my work schedules. Typically, I train for 6 days in a week which includes various types of workout as prescribed by my coach. Triathlon training involves a lot of costs  starting with investing in a good GPS watch to track the workouts, a good bike, pre and post training nutrition, Tri and wet suit for certain events, amongst many other things. Each has its own share of up gradation as one progress from one category to another.” A skin therapist by profession, Ayesha is currently training to participate in ‘Half Ironman’ triathlon (Swim- 1.9Km, Bike- 90km, Run-21Km) to be held in Colombo in February 2018.