Rebecca Moore did not initially set out to be a runner.

“I started running slightly by accident when my friend invited me along to the local athletics club one evening. I’d always been quite sporty and done a lot of swimming, but I found that running was something I could do with my whole family and we all joined the club together,” she said.

She took running more seriously once she started studying medicine at Cambridge University. One of her goals was to compete for the university team.

During the past six years at Cambridge she has found athletics to be a relieving break from her studies and work.

Her favourite distance to race is ten miles.

“I like the neatness of the distance. It’s long enough to really get into the race, but short enough to run fast.”

Moore has excelled at slower distances, winning the British Universities 10,000 metres race. Las April she made her debut for England at the SPAR Great Ireland Run 10K in Dublin.

“On a smaller scale, I like to win as many Parkruns as possible,” she said. Parkruns are free, weekly 5K events held in parks across Britain and elsewhere in the world.

“Often the courses aren’t particularly fast, or there are crowds to slalom through, but I really enjoy the event — and beating the faster men!”

This weekend, she will race in the 10K. “It would be really good to run a personal best. A fast time in Bermuda would be very heartening for the rest of the year, as I’m really hoping to break a few PBs.”

Her 10K best is 34min 17sec.

She is training for a tour by athletes from Cambridge and Oxford universities to Harvard and Yale, where she will compete at 5000 metres and 10,000. Coming to Bermuda will be her first journey across the Atlantic.

Looking ahead, she said: “I’ll be qualifying as a doctor in a few months’ time, so will have to adjust my training and racing slightly. That said, I’ve managed well so far and hope to continue improving throughout my working life.

In the coming months she has a 10K and half-marathon races scheduled, and she wants to continue representing England.

“As it’s my last year at university, I’m also hoping to win another national title in my Cambridge vest,” she said.

“In the long term, I will probably take a year or two out of medical training in order to pursue my running goals.

“I enjoy the sport so much that I’d like to keep running as long as I can. At my local Parkrun, there is a couple both well into their eighties, and if I can achieve that I’ll be very happy.”