In Search of Brilliance

I had my second coaching session with performance coach Terry Williamson of In Search of Brilliance this week.  We have been working on my target for the 2km ergo test at October trials.  On the 22^nd and 23^rd of October our squad will be racing in Boston for the 2012 season Great Britain trials.  It is made up of a 2km ergo test on the Saturday followed by a 5km race on the water.

I am a strong believer in the mental ability of athletes.  Pushing your body to the limit in races is painful and its how you subconsciously process that pain mentally that can really make the difference between winning and losing.  With Terry we worked on how my subconscious processes my 2km ergo race and did a lot of visualisation.  In the first session we looked at how I could alter my thought processes to achieve my target and I did a lot of work on this between sessions.  In this week’s session we looked at how certain I was in achieving my target and the conclusion is that I am very confident in achieving my target.

In the next session we will look at how I process my race on the water. 



Official Start to the 2012 Season

Yes I have been training for the last few weeks but we officially started the new season today.  We have moved to our new boat bay now based on the River just down from the main club.  Whilst the rest of the squad were on there break a few of us along with some other club members have been involved in getting the facility up and running for our return.  It is a great facility but there is still a lot to sort and organise.  

This season we will spend the winter training from our new bay on the river and will return to the lake for the summer.  For most of us the prospect of training on the river and our new facility's is an exciting one we are all sad to be leaving the lake after all these years, but till the summer its bye bye lake.

Its back to the grindstone for the next season and training started quite pleasant with a nice technical session.  Boom second session 30 minute ergo thanks Dez.  Well I suppose we may as well start as we mean to go on.  Train hard, Race hard!!!