My Journey
Training Through Menopause - the back story
I love this photo of me (right) and my friend and training partner, Nikkie. We'd just completed a half ironman triathlon in France, and I think you can see how much fun we had! I'm the one on the right.
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That happy smile hides a (what I thought then) was a devastating truth that I had failed myself. Despite all the training I'd done - and I followed my training plan religiously - I just didn't achieve what I set out to achieve. The time cut-off was 8 hours, and I came in at 8 hours and 3 minutes. Officially I was DNF'd, but they still let me have a medal and a t-shirt!
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The thing that let me down? Nutrition. Pure and simple. I thought I'd done everything right. And to be fair, I did most of it right.
Here's another picture of me. There are things about this photo that I love, and things that I'm not so keen on, but which are really not very noticeable to other people.
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This is the last lap of the run section of Bowood Middle Distance Triathlon. No-one told us the run was going to be quite so 'rural'. The most used term to describe it was 'brutal'. The weekend before, I'd had a fall and damaged my leg, arm and foot, so after all that training, it really wasn't a done deal that I'd get there at all.
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As it happened, I did get there. And it was even slower and more painful.
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But look at that face! That's the face of someone loving what they're doing. Do you see the signs of fatigue? No? Well that's because they're not there.
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So what changed? My nutrition changed, that's what! And if you want to finish your next endurance event with a big smile on your face too, press this button to find ways to work with me.
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