Battle For Glory | Road to the Collins Cup | Lucy Charles-Barclay

we have a very strong team in team europe at the collins cup you need to play your part and prove that you deserve to be on that team [Music] this is the first ever collins cup all the greatest athletes are here team europe team internationals team us for the first time in history the road to the collins cup starts here that pleasure from the pain that you put in it can be a bit sadistic we're wired differently as athletes to want to feel that pain i need to push myself i'm hurting but i can hurt a bit more than this finding where your limit is i don't feel like i've found it yet i don't feel like i'm anywhere near finding it yet one goal to the next this high pressure environment to the next you need to be very strong within your own head it very much comes down to the mind probably more than it does physically good work keep pushing up up so lucy's on a pretty intense brick session today uh she's got three rounds of bike run bike run bike run and with varying intensities on the bike and varying distances and intensities on the runs good chance to kind of tune everything up and get into the world of pain that she really loves and enjoys being in okay yeah so i've got i'm going to mount the bike and then i've got five minutes easy pedaling and then i'll go straight into the card effort again i don't often race in the uk so as a swimmer i did a lot of racing in the uk but in triathlon i've pretty much travelled the whole world not race a lot in my home country so whenever i get the opportunity to race on home soil it does feel that bit more special she's only really tuned in for the last couple of days to these sorts of sessions and she just she picks everything up so quickly um it's a set of tools that she always has sort of kind of on standby but just really sharpening them up and making them ready to go is it's great to watch how she progresses through these sessions and if you ever put a challenge in front of her she just snaps it up like there's no tomorrow so yeah it's impressive to see that yeah there's never even a moment's hesitation really from a very young age i have been competitive i was definitely born with that desire to want to push myself want to be competitive want to win oh lucy was really competitive growing up she drove her sister mad every ball game we had out she had to win and then as she got into swimming she wanted to win everything she just was so competitive i remember being probably about seven or eight years old watching the olympic games and thinking i want to be there i want to do that i want to be the olympic champion i want to be the best athlete in the world my past career was in swimming it's a scary world to go in you swim five o'clock in the morning maybe you go to school and study or you do your job back again in the evening another two hours head down facing the water you're just in that world day in day out doing this i narrowly missed out on the 2012 olympics and tried to go for another four years pushed myself harder than i ever had dedicated myself and then i went and had one of my best ever performances and i just felt nothing and i knew in that moment i'm done with this i remember the evening that lucy came in from swimming and said i've got something to tell you i just want to quit swimming i it just i felt really sad but because it had been such a big part of our lives and obviously a big part of her life lucy's grand was like her biggest fan and and i all i was thinking i'm so dreading telling my mum this that she's gonna quit because she'll be so disappointed so upset my nan was my biggest fan so when i was swimming didn't matter if i had a terrible race didn't matter if i won she just thought i was the best so she would tell all her friends anyone that i was the best there was no one that was better than me and every time i was in the newspaper she'd cut it out and she put it in a little scrapbook she just followed every single thing that i did wanting to come to every race it's a strange story because the the night i said i'm done with swimming and i had a real tantrum and quit the sport and was done and that really was the moment i stopped she actually passed away that evening so it was very strange um she just had a heart attack that was it she was super young um shocked for everyone i think i'm going to get i don't always talk about it but i know how much it does mean i think because her grand was a number one fan i think maybe in some ways it it it fired lucy thinking right i'm gonna i'm gonna do something i think maybe as i've grown up i've carried more of her personality so when i was young i was very reserved i didn't speak out i was very quiet and i think a combination of probably being shot down so many times being told you're not going to do this it's not possible what you're doing who are you to think you can do that i remember as a kid doing like a school running race there was a parent of the girl i was running with i think she was coming up behind me and the parent said something like you can catch her she's not a runner i've had enough of being told you won't achieve something you won't do something you get to the point in life where you're like i'm just going to speak out i'm just going to tell you i am going to do it i feel like i'm doing it for my younger self i haven't given up on that dream and that's what i'm chasing just dig in just dig in with everything you've got lucy charles barkley has brought so much to the sport of triathlon and she's a phenomenal asset to team europe and as the current standings stand she is in contention to be part of team europe i can almost tell before the race that i might have already broken an athlete before we even got on the start line [Music] like i can see that i can sense it i'm a very hard athlete for someone to break mentally i don't think you could okay ladies there's 30 seconds to go it definitely makes me a strong athlete and hopefully a solid athlete to have on a team at the collins cup because i'm willing to fight to the death you definitely have dark points in racing why am i doing this what am i working towards i spend a lot of my time in training thinking about how i'm gonna fill up points in a race reflecting on points in training where i was suffering where i didn't think i could do it and i managed to do it this is the moment where it has to pay off because i'm in the race the one i've been working towards this is the goal blank out everything else the cramp the pain everything and almost go into this out of body euphoric state as endurance athletes we are very adept at enduring and i think that that's a really really important part of what we do we physically endure and and we mentally endure from what i know of lucy and and how militantly she she prepares and how methodical she is how disciplined how how driven and how she's created this amazing amazing supportive team around her i can't think of a better person i'd rather have on our side fighting for the collins cup i'm so happy that lucy fingers crossed will be representing team europe if lucy's grandma was alive now she would be so proud the stakes are higher it means more you're not just backing yourself in your country you're backing a number of countries to represent europe we've got a really strong team of women we have daniela ruth we have annie howe we have myself we have other super strong women fighting for those final spots on the team nationally is the women's side the men's side is absolutely out of this world these are the greatest athletes from around the globe we've got some of the best athletes we've ever had in this sport in the history of it for the first time in history europe we're going to win hands down a battle of nations a battle of regions a battle for glory we're going to be unstoppable the inaugural collins cup you do not want to miss this

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Length: 11min 30sec (690 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 19 2021