unless they are for T
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A great day at the office @Matthew_Spooner
Enjoy the rest of your time there knowing it was a job well done
This is the issue for me, if she was finishing 2nd to Ryf every year then sooner or later Ryf has an off day or retires and Lucy wins but first there was Haug, now Sodaro, who next.
Lucy’s greatest weapon, her swim, is potentially a disadvantage as it puts her out there all day on her own and she doesn’t have that last ounce of run speed to stay away.
It will be a terrible shame if she never wins but I think it’s a distinct possibility, fingers crossed all the stars align at least once.
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Sounds like training; volume or intensity…not both at once 
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got a horrible feeling its going to silver for LCB @ KONA
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You’d think she had a 3 hour flat run in her, given she went just sub 3:03 after a year where she must have lost a lot of run training. So then she needs to find 5 minutes on the bike I guess to come out of T2 with a big enough lead not to get run down by a low 2:5X runner
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Mark Allen was 31 iirc when he won ironwar so LCB has a couple years yet to appease Madame Pele and win this thing.
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Poster 1 :- “WTF is a Maurten Move”
Poster 2 :- “Not so easy to call it the ‘home made maltodextrine and fructose in a 2:1 mix move”
Poster 3 : - “It’s a much more expensive move”
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I think LCB wins it. There’s obviously a magnificent engine in there and a ton of guts.
No shortage of that ITU level run speed available either given her brief forays into that distance.
Issue for me is focus on the one race, one peak in a year. Not try and get Olympic 1500m Olympic swim qualification, race ITU, race London marathon, race 70.3 and IM all in a season (did that contribute to the injury?)
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If the weather remains as yesterday, is it a
- Blu
- Iden
- Lange
sort of day on Saturday?
I watched the video where she discussed how the stress fracture may have come about. Potentially part of the problem was breathing to one side as a swimmer, which had a knock on effect of her posture when running etc. As you say, I’m sure the amount of running must have an impact as well.
she only (i know) went 2:47 didnt she, or was there a reason. she needs to get that flat speed sorted or shes not going to make a sub 3 easily. Id have thought sub 2:40 to go 2:55 and win this thing. I wonder if her “coach” will have a good winter run block planned
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not sure i agree with that, part of her problem may have been her swim form due to a less than perfect breathing technique which was then highlighted in only one side of her body. She also had been doing “work” with swimsmooth when she said that, probably one of only a few that say you must breath every 3 strokes as the norm rather than as a drill
I was getting the encouragement to breathe every three when at tri swim. I think for me it was to do with balancing out my stroke rather than it being ‘optimal’ but could be wrong.
I didn’t realise Frodeno was out (again). Is Brownlee starting?
Have you been under a rock for a few weeks 
Brownlee out with a stress fracture
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I noticed she was just breathing every 2 in the race (in the clips I saw), and she lifts her head as she breathes which must be a curse of swimming open water.
because the BTF got cheap and rather than create their own content now coach ed is just from the Swimsmooth manual so most “tri” coaches now just blindly follow Swimsmooth without and critical thought as to why
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you need to get the oxygen in, you wouldnt only breath 20times a minute when running if you can breath 30!
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