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