Heya Gilead, welcome to the forum! I'm glad you want to go vegan. I'm in Ireland, not the UK, but hopefully I can be of some help!
I've heard great things about 'Another Dinner is Possible' and 'Veganomicon'. Also recipe websites like Vegweb and the PPK will give you some great recipes. It depends very much on your style of cooking.
You can get dried and tinned beans, nuts, tofu, veggie burgers, soya mince, soya yoghurt and Linda McCartney sausages in Tesco (as well as fruit and veg). Not sure about Morrisons as we don't have it here in Ireland.
I'm not athlete but I know that as long as you get sufficient nutrients and calories you'll be fine. If you use protein powders, vegan sources are pea, hemp and soya protein. There are plenty of examples of successful vegan athlethes, such as UFC fighters and ultra-marathoners. Apart from this forum's fitter members, there is another forum veganfitness.net where there is no doubt loads of advice for vegan athlethes
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