Terry Mackintosh is a qualified athletics coach who for the last twenty years has been intensely involved in the coaching of both adults and children in several disciplines of athletics - road running, triathlon, duathlon (running/biking), biathle (running/swimming), track and field and cross-country. She has been involved in all levels of coaching - from complete novices to elite national class athletes competing in national and international events. She has also coached individuals as young as three and as old as eighty and as such, is quite comfortable handling a wide range of ages, abilities and talents.

While still living in South Africa, she managed her own athletics business under franchise and was awarded "Franchisee of the Year" for three years in a row. As a result of this, she is often sought out to give motivational talks to businessmen, schoolchildren, housewives, etc on fitness and health topics and has also been called upon by several of the top athletics clubs in South Africa to give talks and presentations to their members on the mental preparation for racing.

Being a freelance sportswriter, she also writes articles on fitness and health for magazines such as Men's Health, Longegivity, Discovery and Living &Loving. Until a few months ago when she moved to Zambia, she was a regular contributor for Runner's World and wrote a monthly column for them for several years.

Terry is also qualified to deal with the management and treatment of sports-related injuries.

Although initially her focus was mainly on running events, she began her involvement with swim coaching about ten years ago when she was asked to coach multi-discipline events like triathlon and biathle. She continued with this when she moved to Uganda in 1997 and organized the first triathlons, duathlons and biathles ever to be staged in Uganda as well as coaching adults in the disciplines of road running. She started a cross-country club for children in Uganda in 1997.

In 2001, she was appointed as the assistant swim coach for the Jinja Swim Club in Uganda. This was a club that had been languishing at the bottom of the league table for many years and as such, she was asked if she could inject some enthusiasm, motivation and camaraderie into the club. The bulk of her work there involved encouragement, inspiring sportsmanship through team building exercises and preparing the swimmers mentally for competition. She also supervised and planned the training drills that were hopelessly outdated and ineffective. She counts it as one of her greatest successes that she, together with the technique/stroke coach, managed to elevate the Jinja swim Squad from their bottom position, to top of the club log in 2003. Unfortunately, due to lack of funds and incomplete or non-existent travel documents, most of these top swimmers were not able to compete in the Sub-Saharan gala but hope to be able to do so in next year's meet.

In 2004, she was appointed athletics coach at the International School of Uganda where she coached cross-country, track and field and biathle (run/swim/run event). She was also closely involved in the swim programme at ISU and was assistant coach in a weekly swim training programme for gifted swimmers.

Terry has been involved in sport all her life. During school, she was captain of the athletics and field hockey teams and actively involved in horse riding. However, it was only after university that the running bug bit and she began training for the 90km Comrades Marathon in South Africa. Long distance running remains her first-love in terms of sport and to date she has completed over forty standard marathons (42.2 km) and eighteen ultra-marathons (50km or more). Thirty years later and she still runs every day of her life.

In addition, she represented South Africa internationally in the race walking discipline and in 1999 won a gold and a silver medal at the International Age Group Race Walking Championships, competing against race walkers from all over the world including Australia, the US, UK and Europe.

She has also competed in numerous kayak endurance races including the grueling three-day Duzi Canoe marathon in South Africa, as well as in many triathlons and duathlons. Being a bit of an adrenalin junkie, she is determined to attempt anything 'crazy-sportswise' at least once. So she has tried her hand at parachuting, bungi-jumping, spelunking, microlight flying, adventure racing and whatever else happens to be going at the time (including entering a pizza-eating competition, which she won!)