4.5 minutes into a 12-minute sweet spot effort, my HR and RPE were already too high. Frustration built quickly, and before I knew it, I’d stopped pedalling. The tears were welling. My natural response was to fight them, but instead I let them fall… dripping off my nose onto my bike. Why was I getting so upset? It was just a bike session… but it wasn’t just a bike session. The session that unravelled it all. My legs already felt heavy in the warm-up and there had been no real

It’s sometimes hard to put into words how you really feel about a race that meant so much but didn’t go to plan. You tell yourself it’s just a race at the end of the day; it’s not life or death. It doesn’t mean much, but in reality it meant quite a lot. When you put a lot of your life into training for an event this big and it doesn’t go to plan, then what? How do you process that? Do you just accept and move on, or do you try and sift through the emotion? It’s easy for peopl

Imagine this… going from being so fit, training endlessly, completing ironman events to suddenly having no energy, no desire to exercise, socialise, work or do the things that make you, you. Not because you no longer want to but you feel so fatigued you can barely get yourself out of bed. That was me after Kona Ironman 2022 and if you care to follow along I’m going to share snippets of my journey to recovery to date… October 2022 I got back from an amazing 3 weeks in Hawaii -

Race morning 4am alarm. I barely slept as thoughts of the race played on my mind. I ate my usual breakfast of oats, cinnamon, honey and...