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Swim, bike, run, stay sane: triathlon saved me from myself
Ever since my little epiphany back in 2017, triathlon had become my safe space. The one area of my life where anxiety couldn’t get me. Where I didn’t experience the excruciating self-doubt of imposter syndrome. Where I could find and actually grasp my “yes I bloody well can.” I’ve often…
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The Training Diaries: For the love of it
“Speed bump ahead”. It’s ironic really. I posted the photo above on Instagram back in November 2019, with a (suitably w*nky) caption: “Fairly certain the (metaphorical) road to Ironman Vitoria-Gasteiz will be bumpy, challenging and I’ll probably encounter a few potholes. But I’m fired up and ready to work harder…
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Ironman Zurich 2019 race report
I lay there staring at the ceiling of our hotel room in Zurich, the thoughts of all the possible outcomes of race day only drowned out by the sound of my heart beat – elevated by nerves and anticipation. You’d think my body and mind would have got the hang…
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Ironman Zurich 2019: The pre-race jitters
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…
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7 things I've learned while training for Ironman #2
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…
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The Training Diaries: Caution, tapering triathlete – approach with carbs #IronmanZurich2019
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…
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The Training Diaries: Grafman Middle Distance Race Report
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.…
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The Training Diaries: Ironman Zurich 2019 – "Winter Miles for Race Day Smiles"
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…
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The Seven Deadly Sinners of Triathlon
^ A classic ‘over-sharer’, in her element. “Oh this? Just a totally candid photo of me out running…” Guilty. With three sports to master and more training hours than I’ve got clean pants, triathlon provides ample opportunity to break one unspoken rule or another. Whether you’re prone to turning transition…
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"Can you see my bum crack through these shorts?" and Other Triathlete Concerns
Triathletes. Complex beasts with complex concerns. If we’re not obsessing over Strava stats, we’re inexplicably smothering ourselves in gunk like an oversized Christmas goose and squeezing into some sort of neoprene number to go battling it out with the lake weeds. The list of (really not that dreadful) struggles is…
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