Emma-Kate Lidbury: On form @ Eton
Raced the Eton Supersprints on Sunday and stormed home to take a win in my age-group as well as post the fastest women’s time of the weekend. I clocked 57mins 58 seconds for the 400m swim-20km bike-5km run course with splits of 5.13, 32.29 and 18.27 respectively. I was surprised to feel so strong after racing pretty hard at the Europeans last weekend and getting back on it with the high-intensity training from Wednesday onwards. I had a great support crew out in force, including Amy from Wiggle HQ and my seven-year-old cousin Josh - who wanted to ride the Chrono!
All in all, I was pleased to feel “on it” and be firing on all cylinders for what was my last race before the World Champs. I’m starting to reduce the training volume now, so will only log about 10 hours training this week, although the intensity will still be up there and my coach has two nasty treadmill sessions and a killer turbo sesh lined up for later in the week :-(
Off to Vancouver next week, so it’s all coming around very quickly - can’t wait!
Happy training
EK