MI_Mumps wrote:
Ajax Bay wrote:
MI_Mumps wrote:
Commonwealth Games are still 2022, right? I do wonder about Kona this year. That ITU window is small.
Yer'aving a larf, right!
What do you wonder about Kona? Why is the ITU window "small"? Look at the successful older athletes racing the standard distance.
The jeopardy for her will be being distracted by this short stuff: winning Kona will remain her primary goal (I reckon). The challenge will be integrating the different training demands complicated by more frequent races (and the associated travel/logistics).
She's still young; and the young can (and want to) have it all.
Maybe. We’ll see. I don’t think You can do both well at the same time. Or at least in the WTS era. She could do fine at ITU on mainly IM training, but I don’t know about making the Olympics for GB.
Agree you can't do both LD and WTCS/standard properly at the same time, though expect (for example) Iden and Blummenfelt, and maybe Spirig will be front pack players in 70.3s after July 2021, as will Brownlee (ii), and Iden in Collins Cup and Utah. As an uber swimmer who is also strong in both bike and run (name me another) she is uniquely capable of both, in a time/season divided way. But Charles Barclay must surely want to top the world stage, and that's Kona: loss of focus will likely undermine her chances. Who wouldn't want to race in an Olympics (remember her non-selection experience (10km OW swim). She must be so pleased with her run today (35:07, faster than Learmonth and Coldwell, 7th fastest in the field), and managing to stay safe on the bike in a small pack, in close quarters.