New forest sprint tri 2025 Vs 2024

20 minutes quicker today 🥳

So happy

And yes, still niggles - glutes, left side sore - top of leg, groin sore - on the bike when pushing the peddling. But overall delighted. 

Checking progress

I love this!!

This time last year and then the year before

And what about this year?

Niggles, blinking flipping pissing niggles

Groin still sore, glutes still sore, IT band sore.

But - my back isn't as bad as it was. I don't get the leg spasms and I'm feeling so strong!! 

So def progress 

Swimming, cycling, running - all are feeling good!

I am so excited for next Sunday and the New Forest sprint triathlon. It'll be a wonderful gauge of how my recovery is going 

#LizzieGoesLong 🥳🤗

What a weekend

Run / swim / tea with tri club buddies 

Uber to RVCP & a cuppa with Charlotte

Vik's retirement / bday BBQ

Helped tidy up

Walked home over the bridge

Pottered about

Lift to Polesdon Lacey with Shaz

Cuppa tea with Shaz & Loz

Cycled to Mum's

Brunch at Rachel & Hussain's

BBQ at Claire & Linda's with Gabs & Pat

Home by 11:20pm

Bedtime

Fabulous weekend

Glutes sore, groin sore, ITB sore

When am I going to not be sore after doing regular stuff

Shaz's glutes weren't sore about 90mins in the car 😟

However, I am now 10stone 1lb / 64.1kg so that's good xx

Celebrating a good week

Obviously the key to getting a time that starts with a 15 will be consistency. I'm now getting up at 5:30/6am on a work day and 7:30/8am on a non work day. Hopefully this will mean I'm more likely to do whatever coach Emma pops in training peaks for me to do 🥰🎉

I'm very happy with how this week has gone.

Worked Tuesday - Friday in the Student Hub 8am-8pm

Tuesday and Wednesday spent 60mins each way walking to and from work 

Thursday up early - run -  4.8k 38min

Friday 15.5k cycling a long meandering way to work in 60mins

Saturday morning STC swim session at the Quays 

And today - morning S&C and 30k / 2hours evening cycle ride 

A good solid start 🤗💪

I'm also going to see if coach Emma can do me a S&C session that I can do at the gym.

Hopefully this will encourage me to access the gym before or after work when on my 4 days on.

Then when on a 4 day mini break and in Southampton I'll be more inspired to go to the Mayflower gym and work out or go to Jubilee to access a class.

Jo Pacey has recommended Pilates. 

I will try and get to some of Maxine's classes. 

Fabulous day of S&C, blackberrying and evening bike ride

S&C before breakfast while chatting to Sue and Jenny

Blackberrying in Ashtead park with Nessie and Phil

30k evening bike ride while gawping at the amazing views of the glorious Surrey hills

Honestly you cycle 25minutes and suddenly you feel like you're in Devon 🤣

I am though pretty tired.

Needless to say I'm very glad it's a rest day tomorrow 

Quads on fire during the bike ride 

Glutes / groin again niggles, could def feel soreness 

But loving how my body is responding to doing more. I can feel myself getting stronger. 

Laying down my IM base - again!

Here we go again 🤣🙁

Although I am feeling equally excited and this time around I have a coach and I am a lot more aware of exactly what I'm signing up for! 

Huge Banstead parkrun PB / major niggles

What a morning!!!

Saturday 2nd August 2025

33:10!!!!

Banstead parkrun isn't quite 5k so I ran abit after getting my token

5k 34:05!!!

Just fantastic 

Tracey had said I bet you can go faster so I thought let's see. We started slightly further up as the girls had Milo dog. I felt strong and just thought, do it Lizzie, run faster run stronger keep going and see what happens

A huge PB happened!!

Groin was sore, left glute sore

What we realised was we actually warmed up before the run which obviously made a huge difference- will def so that again!

When I got back to mums, my training plan said a post parkrun run

So out I went

Not such a focused warm up

Great run but crikey - groin sore, both glutes so sore but especially the left one - and all over the glute plus hamstrings. 

Was not impressed

Obviously needed to have warmed up but also realised that although 100% heading in the right direction I am def not 100% recovered.

I've cycled 70k

I've run (walked) 21k

I swim 2.8km ish when I do Oaklands morning tri club swim

So I'm certainly heading in the right direction but still along way to go to be able to complete a full Ironman. 

3.8k swim, 180k bike, 42k run.

Needless to say I'm so glad I've got coach Emma to make sure I get to the Outlaw sensibly and Lizzy to help my body recover with her sports massages and Max from Jonathan Clarke physiotherapy who's pinpointing which of my pelvis muscles are still in need of treatment.

I'm feeling very protected.

One year to go

#LizzieGoesLong xx