Lara agrees to train for the Worlds on an Alcohol Fuelled High – and has a hen do the weekend before Chicago!
‘Towards the end of last year I thought I would sign up to the qualifying races for the world qualifiers. Partly because at Mark’s birthday I ‘made a deal’ with Colette. We said ‘it would be fun’ (I was very drunk!)
So I set about training over the winter and my Achilles and ankles kept playing up. Numerous trips to see the physio and I kept being told to stop running for periods of time, but it wasn’t helping. Then my friend announced her wedding date (I’m her bridesmaid) and it coincided with Chicago. So I just kind of gave up on training, although I continued to swim.
The 1st qualifier at St Neot’s was the most freezing swim ever, I’d already made my mind up I hadn’t trained enough to qualify, the swim really just made me feel like I’d complete the race but not really compete. The run was tough after a severe lack of training, I walked a lot! Continue reading
enough and have trained hard enough for qualification to race in Chicago for their country, you are awesome Mark Yeoman, Colette Kitterhing, Lucy Collins, Colin Hinsley, Kevin Dargue, Scott Forsyth, Hannah Thompson, Tim Gray, Jen Isaac, Lara Clay, James Turner, Richard Jones, Peter Bell, Yann Umbricht, Mark Edmunds, Moira Larkin, Mike Essex
