Check out their latest at and use the coupon code CTS20OFF all caps at checkout for 20% off. The times I've run into drama with injury and stuff it's usually around that, where I've been too intense. I think it must be 2003, 2004, something like this. Unlimited access to all gallery answers. You've constantly got to be monitoring with, how is this going to impact me later down the track? Just start going, just try it. Behind The Scenes With Sarah Groff –. For me, I was very lucky I think with my workplace and always having people that thought they understood. I'd finished university, I'd started working. Sarah is a member of the Utah High School MTB League, board of directors. She started riding her bike for recovery. But I would have loved to have advice about how to rack your bike and set up in transition: everyone around me looked so professional, but the more I now know, the more I honestly believe that no one really knows what they're doing and its all about trying to look like you do! Lab one will be intro to DIY Tri, a cautionary tale from vegan cyclists. I was going to say, because if you follow your racing it seemed like 2016 a lot of things started to change.
We got up to the World Series and then I wasn't getting lapped out, I actually can say I never was lapped out of a race, which I'm proud of. I wouldn't say crappy, that's not fair, but for me it wasn't the level I could have performed at, even with the amount of time I could devote to it. Sheila K -- After focusing on running for about 10 years, I needed a new challenge and decided to shift my focus to triathlons. Yeah, I did that for quite some time because at that time as well you're picturing big jobs, big mining industry boom, all this stuff going on. Sarah is training for a bike race for a. I don't know what happened, but I thought I had to multi loop the transition. For those listeners, before the interview we were talking about TSS Training Stress Score versus LSS or Life Stress Score. I just have to focus on this one thing and do it right. Then with 40km to go there is a great descent which felt amazing. I guess that's probably the main things. Then I got a bit of an itch for it but I couldn't devote the amount of time required.
Yeah, no, I would say so. When the swim result from that race was not dissimilar to what it had been the previous times I raced it I was like, well we've not gotten worse. October 16th we've confirmed Lionel Sanders, so really cool. Normally that stuff is off the cards because you just don't even have time for the travel, the whatever, life. I chose triathlon because I thought I might be quite good at it and I liked the variety that comes with doing multiple disciplines. Race to the Rock; Escape and Endure, with Sarah Hammond. I believe in using as much tangible data as possible that is available to each athlete via the use of power-metrics and heart rate data in both cycling and running, along with an emphasis on the psychological and intrinsic feedback from athletes. It's like a gift, is that I can do those five things and still race and for example be second at Sunny Coast. I look now at other athletes that come into the squad now, I don't at all resent it, but they learn a lot quickly compared to me because we've been through what we went through. Is it only enjoyable in retrospect, or are you able to enjoy racing at the time as well? After being the only finisher last year, how do you expect to do in 2017?
They can provide you with the expert instruction and feedback you need to achieve your goals. Exhaust that option first, just get in the pool more and make it easier for yourself, and enjoy swimming, so pool boy paddles or whatever. This is a mantra I've embraced fully my whole life! Her constant feedback on my workouts is allowing me to progress in each phase of my training. What day is Sensor Day? I won the National Deloitte Businesswoman of the Year, actually, in 2006 while I was [crosstalk 00:17:24]. Then six months later I won Ironman, 70. How long does it take to recover from an ultra race? We did all the things then that I would be doing now, probably not as compressed. Sarah is training for a bike race without. For a long time I ran, but we were never under any pressure. I think just hovering over there. Everyone comes hardwired with their own set of internal and external motivators, along with their own natural strengths and limiters. What are you hoping to get out of this year's race? I traveled to Kenya and Uganda on my own to see more in life and volunteered at remand homes (juvenile centers) and talked with kids, encouraging them to a world full of possibilities.
I tried my first full in '15. It's a problem even now. I was like, no you're not [crosstalk 00:20:08] But still, just weren't quite there. If you have those miles it allows you to do that say in the training, but you're still human too. I guess it's morning, good morning from here in Australia. The first time I swam I think I went from, I mean I could make a 1:30 cycle then but I went to, I didn't even make 1:40 with paddles and gear on and everything, just with such a reengineer of my stroke. We'll get more into her history and how she did it, but before we do Sarah, I was reading your bio online and I loved it because it starts out as sunshine with a little hurricane. It's going to be super cool. Sarah is training for a bike race iready. When did you pick up the bike. The swim, historically, was not as strong. Then I decided to move up. Yeah, when there was an event it was like, yeah. I'm looking forward to things. She has also improved my run from an 8:30 pace to 7:00 minutes flat.
We talk about flow, and how to win, and it's a really cool interview. I have to say yes to Noosa today, we're doing it. " Once a year you'd team up with four other athletes, four other kids, and you'd run in total 100 kilometers for the day. Yeah, four years ago.
It's just about stoking your friends up to get out there, and do something, and stay in shape. I flew into a race, I'd actually fly into a race on a Friday. Then we're going to have an awards and recap on October 30th with some video highlights, and social media highlights, and things like that. Exactly like that, yeah. Mm-hmm (affirmative). I remembered that from doing shift work in the hospital in my younger days. Well, I think I was lucky that I sought a coach out. It's just another opportunity to get involved.
I came onto their cycling team as the only female, and only mountain biker. Oddly enough, Cameron, my coach Cameron Watt, would tell me this because I was friends with him then, he was like, "I know a guy that could fix this. " But then I got out there again the next weekend and did 180km followed by a 200km ride. A friend told her about the Dales Divide, a 605 kilometer (375 mile) self-supported race across the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks. But then in about a month, we raced in New Caledonia that year and I think I got third maybe, but my swim time was about the same. Then, I guess through high school it was mostly running as my preferred thing but I did play softball, and basketball, and pretty much everything. I think we need to take these opportunities to let the head just go do something else for a bit and not be so focused on triathlon. I guess it's the same in any sport but no one's held grudges over people. Also, some of my time, post-ITU I went back and trained in clubs. I missed that chance to get in the system early. Then just that intensity started to build as I came back to Brisbane, we squad started, and then I layered in the focus. Then I kind of broke out I guess at Bahrain at the end of the year because we came back from Kona and did a big swing block.
I needed to go back to work.