Andy Knowles joined University of 麻豆果冻传媒 as a 49-year-old mature student, swapping running his own successful engineering business to do postgraduate study for Applied Sport Physiology MSc and change his career to be involved in endurance sport. Though his degree involved a steep and often difficult learning curve, Andy is graduating with a distinction - based on research into the impact of the menstrual cycle on endurance performance of women athletes.
He has now set up called The Endurance Project to support runners, cyclists and triathletes, and is also working on plans for an innovative project to bring business owners and other entrepreneurs together to find solutions to their business problems, while having a run in Stanmer Park!
Andy said: “I had little knowledge of physiology at the start, but I thought it can't be any harder than running a business or consulting to Heathrow Airport! It had been 20 years since I had done any kind of academic study and it was a lot tougher and more challenging than I imagined, but from the word go I absolutely loved it. My brain came alive. I knew this where I wanted to be and what I wanted to do.”
You can watch the graduations live on our website.