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Loved it. While LCB’s videos always seemed a little too polished for me (if not bland), she’s being raw, spontaneous and even facetious in this one.
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Yeah, she seems pretty chilled out about life and her training.
Looking forward to watching this later. I agree with the comment that sometimes the videos are too polished. I can even see this from the carefully chosen title about a full day of training as a pro triathlete. It’s so calculated. I think she’s probably made this type of video several times before, but that’s the game the influencers have to play, right Lionel?
The title makes me smile a little as I think about the full day of training as a pro triathlete. Once I had one of the cross country kids I coach in the mornings before work starts say to me, “You have a job?!? I thought you were a full time stay at home athlete?”
Haha, what a category. Maybe one day I’ll have my own youtube channel and post “Full Training Day for a Stay-at-home Athlete”. Hah.
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I found it interesting she didn’t mention running at all in the video (unless I missed it). Has she released her 2025 schedule yet?
Raw and spontaneous?? What the, it was a 18min ad for whoop…
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She won’t win a race this year.
Yup. Racing hasn’t started so the videos seem to be trending toward giving the new sponsors some early ROI.
The most impressive thing was Reese running 30km on a treadmill in an empty gym.
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I don’t know how to say this without offending anyone, but if all you saw in that video was whoop (including the close-up shots in the swim segment), then I can’t help you.
There, I said it without offending anyone!
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I don’t think she will win the important races this year.
Rumour is her run is causing problems.
You’ll find most people thought the same thing going into Kona '23. Especially after her lackluster result in one of the PTO events leading up to it. We all know how that went…
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Totally different this time round. Apples and oranges. In 23 she had come second so many times but never reached the pinnacle, she was clearly im the frame of mind to win or die trying.
This time though after 4 seconds and one win has she got the mental at all costs reason to go deep, I think not. Burnt out and collecting the pay checks… Imho.
You’ve managed to squeeze three bad takes in one short thread, all of them negative. Carry on…
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thanks for posting that, enjoyed it…
swim workout about 5k. there are days, when my run isn’t that long…
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I watch for the Lola and Pickle content…
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Hahaha…Me too.
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Think you totally underestimate her burning competitive instinct which shines through now as it has for 6+ years (and throughout her swimming career).
Her success this year will only be limited by her (and her team’s) ability to stay sufficiently healthy to get the running miles in. As @JackStraw13 said: not a whisper of any of that pesky footwork in this “full training day”. Is that too difficult to video?
She’s run the London Marathon in 2:48 though, and last year went sub-2:50 at IM Nice in June.
Has to validate her AQ for IMWC Kona.
I’m expecting Kona to have her (LCB), Haug, Philipp, Matthews, Knibb, Sodaro fighting it out. Anyone else?
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Oh great, we have a white knight…
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Perhaps. For 23 though nothing was going to stop her, not even a torn calf. In 24 she couldn’t even start. Surely there comes a point where either consciously or subconsciously you lose a degree of the incentive required to hurt yourself to such an extent necessary to win a WC as a pro.
In 2023 she was going to blow up trying for the win and she got it.
In 2024, once she got the taste of IM World’s victory she wanted more and showed up at the start line at Nice to punch her qualification for Nice worlds. She was on fire and ran sub 2:50. But wanted the cake and eat it too and showed up three weeks later for PTO London event. Not sure if it was unneccessarily running sub 2:50 when she did not need to, or doing that and ramping up too quickly for London, but since then, she’s been a bit broken. But if you can win Kona 17 months ago, and go sub 2:50 and win Nice 9 months ago, it should be in the realm of possibility to get back to that form if you’re not broken. She is still young and not at the point where performance tails off (yet).
So it should be about managing the body and managing desire. You can’t go to the well too many times too often and not pay the piper. It seems she has the desire though, but can she cap her own expectation on a day in and day out basis and not go to the breaking point over and over. Eventually if you break yourself enough times, you can’t go there again even if your brain wants to.