Heather Fell, Olympic modern pentathlete silver medalist, writes about her life 'on and off' the track.

I'M hoping most of the country has now recovered from the Olympic hangover. In the past week the legacy left by the London games has been a hot topic and I was given the chance to defend this on BBCs Radio's 'Five live' the Monday after.

Luckily the programme and its listeners were on my side — post Olympic fatigue was setting in and it was a challenge just to string a coherent sentence together – but between us I think we shot down the Olympic pessimist on the other line.

There have been reports of several sports clubs receiving an enormous surge in interest — for example a friends rowing club has even had to turn some youngsters away as it can't cope with the demand. Along with the rest of the nation I've felt inspired to try a new sport and last weekend I chose triathlon. At first glance this might sound quite impressive but I'm not sure I can even entirely claim it was a new sport for me. This triathlon was a charity event run by Jenson Button in the grounds of a grand Hertfordshire estate; in order to encourage people to 'have a go' the distances were some what shorter than an Olympic triathlon with heats in the morning followed by a second round later that afternoon. Not only were the distances somewhat shorter than even a sprint triathlon but I ended up being a member of a team (and the only team at that!) and therefore only doing the lake swim. I feel I can claim this though as I've never swam in an open water race before or participated in a triathlon in any form.

It was a great experience even if I do have a fat lip to show for it today (we were put in the men's race) and I'm definitely keen to attempt to put all three together in the near future.