About Me...

My life in a nutshell: I'm a Midland lad, born in Stafford on January 4th 1984. Aged four I moved with my family to Stratford-upon-Avon where I lived until University.

I'm the middle child of my family, son of parents Mike & Jayne Simkiss, and brother of my two siblings, elder brother Christopher and younger sister Victoria. I live with my partner Emma who I've enjoyed the last 7 years of my life with.

In the early years I was educated at Thomas Jolyffe Junior & Infant School in Stratford-upon-Avon before moving on to King Edward VI Grammar School, also in Stratford. After GCSE's, AS and A2-Levels I started a degree in Industrial Product Design at Coventry University. A year's work experience was spent as a web-designer/developer as part of the degree and I graduated a year later with a 2:1 masters degree.

Having finished university and started running again, I found myself trying to get involved in as many sports as possible to lose some weight and regain a certain level of fitness.

That brings me to where I am today, a keen runner looking to see how far I can go and also striving to push myself as far as possible in my professional career having joined Jaguar Land Rover as a Design Engineer after leaving university.