It feels like it’s only been a hot minute since I was typing out my pre-Ironman Copenhagen blog post last year. And yet, here I am. Sat in a hotel room in Zurich, with an Ironman Switzerland athlete wristband adorning my right arm and an M-dot shaped cookie cutter on my bedside table because we Read more

Training for my first Ironman last year gave me a schooling. From the importance of taking enough water out with you when there’s a heatwave and you’ve got a 20 mile run to do (I came dangerously close to drinking out of a very questionable stream) to the restorative properties of chocolate milk. Ironman training Read more

So it turns out, if you want to make the first half of a year whizz by quicker than Lucy Charles-Barclay during an Ironman swim – you just need to move house, change jobs, plan a wedding and train for an Ironman all at once. I genuinely have no idea where the last 6 and Read more

You know you’re up too early when even the dog refuses to emerge from underneath his pile of blankets to greet you. There was a time in my life when I’d be up and about at 4am because I was yet to make it to bed after a night out. These days, the pre-dawn chorus Read more

8 weeks down, 20 weeks to go – Ironman Zurich I am coming for you! I’ve got that proper end of training block feeling, of being simultaneously knackered and chomping at the bit for more. On the one hand, I’m already feeling fitter and stronger than ever before. The numbers are looking good (totally kicking Read more