Mum of Three Triathlete
1st June 2016
Top 10 tips: mum-of-three/triathlete
For someone who started running to ‘get rid of the baby weight’, Rachel Fagan’s achievements are incredible. Five marathons with a top time of 3hrs 10mins and a second-place finish in the Border Triathlon Series. You can read her story here. Rachel gives us her top ten training tips…
1. Follow a plan. Always have a training programme, it keeps you focused.
2. Identify some key races – which ones you’re going to use for practice, which to seriously compete in.
3. Try and train with others but make training about you and not them.
4. Practice transitions!
5. Include brick sessions every week.
6. Taper for key races, so don’t go full tilt in training right up to the race day.
7. Always recce the course before a race.
8. Get on with the race – don't over think it.
9. Walk through transitions at races – check out the racking in particular.
10. Take at least one positive and one development point from each race.