Go behind the scenes pre-race with Kat Matthews, Fenella Langridge, Jackie Hering & Maja Stage Nielsen on A Fighting Chance presented by Wahoo Fitness as they prepare for IRONMAN European Championship, Hamburg.
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so we did the first block of racing over in America where I guess momentum like was really building in terms of the pro IR man Pro Series and it was good to get a feel for it who was kind of targeting it or who was kind of getting their feet of how they wanted to race what they wanted to race and yeah now it’s in full swing and uh yeah I’m just finishing my first half of the season after this race with full eyes on the second half in terms of Championship races and uh yeah the events so after a well you say a bang average Iron Man Texas bang average you’ve come you’ve come away from there you’ve assessed the situation when did you decide on Hamburg was that free free Texas or is this the big part of the Season like planning yeah this was the trajectory of the season to come here um to do a blocker race at the beginning of the year come here have a break and then build into Iron Man niece we did think about maybe changing it maybe doing cans or Lake Placid but for me I feel like this is the race that I’ve always wanted to do I love German races um I’ve never been to Hamburg uh it’s super exciting um the course is fast and fun and yeah the German crowds will definitely get me to that Finish Line a lot faster already been out on the course the Run course the Run course a little bit yeah give us a little taste of what like the vibe what you’re feeling right now how’s it going to play out oh I don’t know I guess everyone’s got their story at the moment they’ve already written they want to break some records They want to win and I think uh I just I just want to do the unexpected on Sunday and whatever happens happens sticks to my race plan and hopefully that gets me uh as close to the top of the points as possible and with the longer P or the longer game plan in mind to finish it’s so cool to be somewhere new that’s fun this is the first time you’ve done an Iron Man on European soil right that’s 100% true yeah why are you in Hamburg why are you doing Iron Man Hamburg what’s the story Pro Series over winter I was watching all the Iron Man’s um on on my trainer and this one actually looked really beautiful so and having never raced in Europe and the hype of Tron in Germany I thought it would be good to experience it you had quite a big big Hiatus than you on between like 2015 and now on the Iron Man circuit what’s the big reason to is it just a pro series or I had two kids that was a Hiatus um yeah I didn’t think I’d do Iron Man again cuz it just takes so much time and so much energy and raising kids 2 years apart I already felt like I was doing a really hard thing on a really daily basis and IR man is really hard so you can only do so many hard things so now that the kids are both in school I’m feeling like I guess life is too easy so I need a hard something hard to do again the pro series really did spark a feeling of like wow this is a cool Challenge and a challenge just to be able to get that many quality races in in one year is actually the big part of the challenge like can you consistently do well at five events that’s hard in one year so the halves were good knocked those out so now I just need to do three good Iron [Applause] Man so you fresh back from America yeah how’s it been going tell us Pro Series yeah the pro series is is a a cool new advention and I had my first go in Texas not quite as I had hoped but I feel like the last four weeks has been super good and now I’m ready to give it a new try I was looking at your your bio there 16 16 career iron on so far and seven podiums yeah actually I had this thought the other day that I’ve done quite a few but I kind of like to go into the race with the mindset of it’s being the first obviously I want to have all the experience I have and don’t make the same stupid mistakes again but at the same time be like yeah just open-minded and just do it and have fun what’s next where you going what’s happening what’s the so this one first stop uh then I go to Lea and do 7.3 uh then the plan is to have sometime in the Summer where I can go to nce and have a nice Camp get to know that c um we race 7.0 European championships in Talon just before knce and then go to knes and race and hopefully I will then by the time also have a slot to 70 country WS uh and chop it up with that yeah I would say it’s very straightforward course super nice crowd and I guess that’s what you really need in an Iron Man race somebody to cheer you on and help you get to that finish line where’s your strengths lie on this particular course well we’re here to be good TR athletes right so hopefully all three disciplines um I think it’s flat but it’s not like Texas flat it’s like I think it’s flat but it’s there’s so many turns and so much there’s actually quite a lot of perhaps skill involved in this course so it’s actually I think it’s it could be a really great course for me I just as most cyclists do like climbing um and despite my sort of um like cycling build perhaps I prefer a a hiler course but this course could suit me really well yeah on Instagram 10 days ago yeah I’m going to quote you on this but IR man Hamburg Pro Series I’m aiming to win through a PB by to the front of the race and properly run a marathon securing second of the third Iron Man in the Pro Series sharing this on usually positive heads space for me with you because it’s fun to try # might delete later um yeah about 10 days ago I overconfidently stated my aims of the race and I think it it makes logical sense as well it’s not me being um arrogant um that’s I I have the confidence that my train my swimming is in a really good place and therefore for me I want to PB on the swim I don’t know what that looks like on race day I don’t know who I’m going to be with um I I’ll always try and swim with someone faster everyone does it makes sense um and I think with this course like sighting straight line you know it could be simple um the bike like I said the confidence I got fromont my bike in Texas I really want to cement that again I I feel like I had that in 21 22 22 and I lost it a little bit and now I I really want that to be like part of me and my racing like my cycling um and the run to be more of a an a not a necessary weapon um and again my running has been like the running I have done which is about 30k a week has been really great so yes I haven’t got the running legs perhaps that most people do but I I don’t think I need it um so it could be it could be excellent or it could or just come crashing down again [Music]