Emily Patch - Triathlete

Before I start building up my training again for hopefully a successful winter of training ahead of my 2017 season, I thought it was time for a review of 2016 as well as my British Standard Distance Championships race report. British Standard Distance Championships I hadn’t intended on doing a standard distance race this season but in June I was scrolling through my twitter feed while eating a late breakfast after swimming with Angus at the Loughborough Town pool when I saw a tweet from British Triathlon saying there was only 5 places left for the Standard distance event at Liverpool, knowing we were already going as Angus had registered for it at the start of the year I made the spare of the moment decision to enter it. Early August it only really hit me that I’d entered my first standard distance race (1500m swim, 40km bike and 10km run) and my main worry was that I’d never run as far as 10km. So with just over a week to go I needed to prove to myself that I could run

With a hectic last few weeks I have finally found a few spare hours on the way to Liverpool (for my first Standard Triathlon tomorrow eek) to write a quick blog update! The last couple of months has been a very exciting busy time for Angus and I with the move to Nottingham and starting the work on doing up our house (plenty of wallpaper scrapping). My blog this month will include race reports for ·       Leeds Elite Aquathlon ·       Leeds Open Triathlon ·       Woodhall Spa Sprint Triathlon ·       Lidl Bananaman Elite Triathlon Leeds Elite Aquathlon and Leeds Open Triathlon On Friday the 10 th June my parents, my brother and I headed to Leeds, it had only been two weeks since my race in Lisbon and after having my best performance of the season there I was excited to try and top it. When we arrived in Leeds the smiles had definitely been wiped off our faces. With our hotel being on the outskirts of Leeds we drove into the centre of Leeds for registration.