Update from Rachel (01.08.2011)

in the last weeks Rachel Joyce focused on training to get ready for her next challenges. Here is her report.

Since my last race, Challenge Kraichgau in June, things have been quite quiet for me on the race front but don’t worry, I haven’t been sitting around with my feet up! After a busy start to the season I took a short mid-season break in July, and used the downtime in training to address a couple of niggles that had flared up during Ironman Lanzarote. With those sorted I got back into training and into the early preparation for the Ironman World Champs in October.

I have spent the last two weeks training in Morzine, France with some of Britain’s top female triathletes. The riding here is brilliant, and the quiet roads make a welcome change to the ones I’m used to in London. There is a 50m pool close by and on the running front, I guess the hills are at least making me stronger.

This weekend I am back on the racing scene, competing in TriStar Estonia (1km:100km:10km). This will be perfect to test out where I am in training and after seeing Faris and Kristin both take Ironman titles in the last two weeks I am feeling motivated! I’ll then return to Morzine for another week before I hope to up the altitude and join my team mates in St Moritz for more quality training.