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From Blenheim Palace to DesMonies
The week leading up to Blenheim was great, it started with me up in Loughborough for the Monday and Tuesday to get some key training sessions done with Michelle and Stuart, one of the sessions was track session on Tuesday which we had to do in the good old British weather, THE RAIN but it wasn’t to bad and we were joined on the track by some sprinters which was good and then back down in Birmingham on the Tuesday evening for the rest of the week.
I no I mentioned it in my last blog but I owe Michelle and Stuart a huge thank you for having me up at there place in the week, there is not many coach’s and training partners that let you stop at their house all week, thank you guys!
On Tuesday it was my mum’s birthday (Happy Birthday again mum love you) so me and mum went to the pictures on the evening with my sister Carrie, Linda and Steph ,we went to see Sex In The City 2, which was a fantastic film, loved it. It was good to go out and chill on the evening as I was feeling really tired from training so was good to just go and have a mental break and switch of and watch a film.
Things were pretty boring for the rest of the week as training was coming down, this is the time that I struggle with, I feel like I should be doing more than I am but Michelle is always keeping a close eye on me to make sure I don’t do anything extra leading into races.
OK so race day at Blenheim Palace, it was great to have such support at the race as loads of people I know came down to watch me race, I had family, my mum dad sister auntie and cousin, best friend Clare and 2nd family Linder and martin and old work college Billy and his family who his two little girls I fell in love with and are absolutely gorgeous and I have got to mention Sarah, the Team Dillon Mary Poppins ! It means so much to have such great support behind me! Thank you guys!
So the swim it started of as fast as what I thought It would with Abbie Thorington taking it out hard and leading from the go, I found myself slightly back from the leaders of 3 so had to really work hard to get out the water near then but caught then in the long run to T1, then out on the bike and was first out along with Abbie , Vicky Holland and Heather Jackson, I really wanted to push the pace and tried to get the group working which we did and managed to work well but on the 2nd lap there was a crash with Heather and Vicky at the pack so it just left me and Abbie, we pushed on and carried on working hard. Apologies to both girls ,its not fun to come on in a race.
I got into T2 and off I went pushed out hard and ran hard through out the whole run, pushing on, this was the way I wanted to as my main race is next weekend in DesMonies and would be my last hard day. I ended up winning by 2minuets 45seconds which I was chuffed with as I wasn’t totally fresh going into the race but felt great.
Now I am flying out on Tuesday to the USA with Stuart who had a fantastic 2nd place as well. Now to DesMonies & let the balls be slammed !
