I will post an exec summary once i have a chance to listen to this (likely after trainer ride tonight), but in the mean time, it is worth its own discussion since it is one Kona champion inteviewing another one and the interviewer would get the mindset of the interviewee.
Podcast Preamble:
Athlete mindset and dealing with public criticism are daily realities for Lucy Charles-Barclay. Because her swim strength usually puts her at the front of every race, she is constantly under the camera’s lens, meaning every mistake is broadcast to the world and judged by “armchair coaches”. Lucy shares how she developed a “thick skin” to stay focused on her peak performance and why she ultimately doesn’t care about the opinions of those who don’t understand the complexities of the sport.
Sorry, did not yet post a summary. My youtube feed gave me all kinds of stockmarket doomsday videos related to the US war in the gulf, which sucked up my roller ride (by the way, putting a video screen in front of rollers is a dead easy way to stay dead center on the rollers). So will get on this podcast tonight! But I should have put in a trade for fertilizer stock a while ago but minimally last night!
Listened yesterday, with some ffwd’ing.
Commented on the bit I was interested in in the ‘was LCB and Knibb’s pace suicidal?’ thread.
Expects to fail 99% of the time, but be in it to win it.
Swimming Commie 1500m trials next week in her local pool.
Endurance training in one sport helps the others (who knew) so will not have lost too much run speed come Nice in September (no 70.3 validation required).
I listened to the interview this morning. I found it interesting that she sets big goals that she knows she is likely to fail at. I would struggle with that approach as I hate failure. For LCB the approach pushes her to achieve greatness.
So is this qualifying similar to the Olympic Games? In that you have to first make the country spot, but then also make the standard time of the meet? If so, what is the standard, hopefully not the low 16 of the games…
I thought for Paris 2024 trials, team GB sent NO starters to Paris because none of their swimmers at trials met the team GB 1500m standard. This is what Google Gemini says. In any case Commonwealth games is team England not team GB meaning more potential slots to start and likely a different standard:
Agree. I felt like it should have been better. I’m struggling to identify why. I think he might be trying to make it interesting for non triathletes as well, but it comes off as both not being enough inside baseball and not insightful enough to work on either dimension.
Yes this is why I asked the question, and thus far no one seems to know. The 247 article had nothing definitve, but at least we should know how many get slots? Is it two like the games? Is there a standard to hit before they spend money on you going? She was at a low 17 minute awhile back, wonder if she can get back to the 16;40ish range. I would think that time would be ok, but of course seems like more ladies swimming that fast than the olympic trials where she was 2nd…
I wonder if Lucy has a chance to make Team GB for the 10k openwater for LA Olympics. But I don’t know where he fits into the GB pecking order there. Seems like she is a minute 40-60s slower than the top 1500m pool swimmers (roughly 3-5s per 100m). But open water swimming has drafting so can she stay in an Olympic trials pack with the top girls in GB?
Its like he is trying to be the next Diary of CEO, or Hubermann (whatever they call themselves) podcasts (which I don’t listen to either..) with his ‘Mental’ thing.
I’m only listening to the Triathlon related interviews which have been interesting, especially the ones where he has a connection with the guest from previous racing etc.
And if I drank all the Pillar stuff - every day - yikes
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