JANUARY 2025.
NEW YEAR/ NEW OLYMPIC CYCLE
JAN – European Training Camps / Cycling Camp
VILAMOURA, PORTUGAL.
2025 marks the official start of the LA 2028 Olympic Cycle with all the opportunities to learn, develop and achieve. This year I feel as though I’m in a really strong place for a year of learning as much as possible with limited distractions. A new approach to this cycle is that I’m fully engaged for the entire four years, there’s no university, no major injury and I have the knowledge from what I experienced in the previous cycle as to what it takes to make it to the Olympic trials in the best way possible.
Learnings.
Being in the wings of the previous trials I was able to objectively watch the differing ways different teams undertook Olympic preparations and could see how the pressures materialised in the larger and smaller teams differently. The British team is the most successful sailing team in Olympic history and the vast resources available to us is incredible, something I’m hugely grateful for. Whilst this is amazing, at times it can feel that you get lost in a system and that people are too preoccupied to focus on you specifically. In the smaller teams, this is not the case. Of course, different people react differently to new stimulus, but I really took from the Olympic build up experience that I work the best when I have a rigid skeleton of a program but with the independence to build my own specific objectives into those sections. Taking this knowledge through to the new cycle will be invaluable and a huge step forward.
What’s new?
Very excitingly, Cripps have joined my Olympic cycle and are becoming instrumental in helping me to reach the World Championships in China this May! As always, I’m super grateful for all the support, it makes such a difference in being able to focus on training and racing, rather than fundraising.
Right now…
Kicking off the new year with a month long training bloc out in Vilamoura, Portugal with a cycling camp tucked in the middle for an extra effort! It’s been great to settle down early and get the hours in to really build a speed foundation.