Emma-Kate Blog: Back on track
After a few weeks of what seemed like relentless travelling and racing, I’ve recently been enjoying some solid weeks of training - and with the sunshine making the occasional appearance too the Chrono and I have been loving being out on the road. I think above all else consistent training is the key to good performance, so it’s great to have clocked up a few good weeks now since Vancouver. My next race is a fortnight away, Antwerp 70.3, which will be my first half Ironman event. I’ve only ever raced Olympic or sprint distance, so stepping up a distance will be a good challenge for body - and mind! The beauty of 70.3 is that you don’t need to alter training that greatly from Olympic distance training, although I have been doing some longer brick sessions which have been experiments with nutrition as much as training sessions. You sometimes learn things the hard way. What do you get if you do 100k on the bike followed by a 75min run on two bottles of energy drink and three gels? You don’t get home easily, that’s for sure…