Do I switch to short course? | Super League Malibu | Behind the Scenes | Lucy Charles-Barclay

okay we are in malibu it has been the super league malibu weekend and i'm going to give you a run-up of what went down and how much fun it was [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] is for the vlog [Applause] [Music] post 70.3 worlds we actually went back up to altitude for a couple of days just to kind of unwind a little bit from that race try and have a mini celebration which by the way i'm going to have a massive celebration when i get home so i'm not celebrated yet but we decided on wednesday we were going to travel across to malibu so we actually drove down to the local small airport in cedar city which is the probably one of the smallest airports i've ever been on got on one of the tiniest planes i've ever been on which for the first 15 minutes of that flight i thought the plane was going to fall out the sky because it was so bumpy flew to salt lake city and then had a very short layover like 40 minutes and then we flew from salt lake city to la [Music] [Music] xss [Laughter] my shell does a triple xl where's the size of it oh it does stretch a lot though i feel the stretch [Music] okay i'm gonna pick a card for you okay i'm gonna put your card down so was it a low number oh a high number highest number in the middle in the middle interesting yeah it makes it hard for me so it's a what it's a higher number it's higher yeah yeah okay so he's now still okay here we go [Music] spades [Applause] [Music] hello my name's lucy so my goal going into this race was just to put myself out there definitely outside of my comfort zone i knew it was going to be off the back of the 70.3 worlds which was obviously my a race so when i say minimal preparation went on for this race actually in reality zero preparation went on for this race because i just didn't have time and in reality i wish i'd had more preparation but at the same time i had major fear of missing out if i didn't do it and who doesn't want to go to malibu it was on the way home anyway what's not to like [Music] um [Music] oh yeah these are the real diva glasses for the side swings they're really cool oh yeah now i feel like i belong in malibu [Laughter] so to come in on the final week it's been a four week series the super league and i got selected as a wild card for the sharks team i knew a long way in advance that i was going to do this around the time of the collins cup i knew i was going to be doing malibu a tiny bit of me felt bad coming in because everyone had done like the whole series and i was going to come in on the last one ultimately potentially mix things up a bit just because of my swim strength i'm always able to at least mix it up in the swim part but i never really thought i was going to be in contention for winning the thing so that made me not feel so bad because i knew i could probably come in have a bit of fun and ultimately maybe not completely mess it up for another athlete so hopefully everyone didn't mind me coming along i definitely had a lot of fun particularly with my sharks team i felt like i kind of was welcomed really openly into that team but they never used to have this but there's going to be a sign in your transition area to say you've got one short shoot or two short shoots so if you don't get the first short shoot make sure you get secretary and your sweep you're gonna fix your gears up before you go out for that second swim but you're gonna have to quickly adjust it because if you'll get on your bike and you go then that's going to be that's going to slow you down so my kind of lastminute.com preparation for the race included a ride over the santa monica mountains down to malibu beach [Music] mercedes i need a g wagon [Music] well all going well we're gonna try and ride to the beach um we're gonna try and ride down where the race is actually happening i think the whole route that we've mapped out is about 50k so we're going to go over the hills down towards the beach and then hopefully climb back up and come back towards the hotel we've just done a little swim in the pool here and then hopefully i'm going to do a little brick run maybe practice some mountain and dismantling in the car park as well because nothing like last minute practice and maybe some weaving around car park spaces like the real amateur that i am there is so much air down here like in the pool i was like wow i could actually breathe so this is the lowest in altitude we have been for over three weeks now so you can definitely feel it and once we get down to the beach we're obviously gonna be fully at sea level so i expect to just feel that high as a kite on oxygen so yeah winning [Music] hey i also did a couple of swim sessions at the local pool here and then actually drove to an outdoor pool [Music] oh [Music] awesome [Music] [Music] did a couple of runs around the hotel here and one down near the course in malibu on the beachfront and then we also had a bike record session on the friday before the race where we was able to write for an hour on the course [Music] [Music] you say you listen but you're missing what it's all about [Music] [Music] even in that hour i felt like i just gained a lot of confidence in terms of bike handling because basically it was just over a one kilometer loop so just doing that multiple times with lots of dead turns and cornering i actually felt pretty happy with how i felt on the bike yeah i actually really enjoyed the bike ricky there's quite a few tight turns but after a few laps i was starting to get more confident and then there's that fine line between being confident and then being overconfident so i was like you know what let's not get ahead of myself just learn it don't go too crazy there's a nice straight section where you can actually lay down some power so that's where i might be able to make up some time lost on the bends but all in all actually felt quite good which surprised me and there's some rough sections like the surface is actually quite rough and hot holy in some of the corners but you know what i think it's going to be fun like i just really enjoyed wrecking that so i'm not going to have as many people around me in the race hopefully all going well might be all of us we might all come together but c looks really fun as well so i'm just going to have fun out there and ideally not fall off so if i don't fall off then i've won [Music] i've just picked for the women we are actually positioned too okay so we're almost not because apparently the lifeguard said that there's going to be a bit there is a bit of a rip over the boys have moved already to the right all right so apparently that's going to be a good position actually fun let's get pulled over yeah so that's actually not too bad yeah it was definitely difficult to kind of almost get in race mode again after 70.3 worlds when my career since 2017 has been about trying to win a world title and then to finally do it i almost just wanted to like live in that moment and celebrate that but i had to kind of a little bit put it to the back of my mind even though as much as super league was about having fun i didn't want to look like a complete idiot because i hadn't done any preparation so i had to kind of get my head into a bit of race mode focus on the small skills that were going to be involved which again i know need work i haven't worked on them yet so it's it's a really difficult situation where that hasn't been my focus the long distance has so that was hard in itself which is why the main goal of this whole thing and the main objective was just to go in learn as much as possible get to race along the best short course skills that there are try and learn from them and just have as much fun as possible if you can do this kind of racing then i believe itu racing would be a lot easier because it's that bit longer and i've got more time to hone in on my skills and if i make a small error then there still would be time to correct it whereas on this if you make an error you're out it's game over so it's super extreme but if you want to learn and learn fast you've got to put yourself in at the deep end semi-permanent hair dye i wanted my hair to match my bite but none of these are the same color as my back so we're going to try and pick one and put it on in a way that it matches my bike but i'm not a good hairdresser as you might have seen on a previous video i think this is actually my favorite one but i don't think it's going to come out how i want this one i'd like to use but i would hope it fades and this one's just like super easy straightforward so probably is the best option but it's a bit boring to go the easy option so we will see how it turns out [Music] it's quite a large dollop to start with [Music] i've got photos now [Applause] [Music] i think christian is doing this and your hair has changed color so you've really screwed everything down it's all out of whack [Music] you seen the super league one look at them well i wanted it to match my bike but it came out really bright so i'm hoping it's gonna make it it's just really good forever we just do black colors yeah it looks good you won't miss anything i don't know this person [Music] so race day basically the format was three rounds we had a 300 meter swim a four kilometer bike and then a mile run and at each stage of the race people were eliminated if they were the last athlete [Music] [Music] [Music] round one i was first at the water and i was first out of t1 so i got the short shoot i actually felt pretty good on the bike and i managed to do a flying squirrel mount on round one felt pretty good on the bike in terms of confidence of handling but definitely straight away noticed that my legs just had nothing they had no power they'd obviously given everything last weekend at the 70.3 worlds they just weren't firing like i needed them to i had a good dismount a pretty good for me t2 and then got on the run and actually felt brilliant i was actually like eating up the gaps and working my way up towards the front once i finished we obviously had just under four minutes to sort out transition again and get back to the start line of the swim which logistically meant going in one direction away from the start line sorting everything out and then having to get back about 80 100 meters back to the start line so even the rest was pretty hectic [Music] round two was pretty similar i think i was third out of the water my transition in t1 was slightly worse my bike legs felt even worse i think i was like slightly further back maybe on the bike but actually managed to run myself up to about fourth i think so i'd actually run even better third round was probably my worst round [Music] i was first at the water managed to surf in on a wave so that was a lot of luck that comes down to that more than skill to be honest had an absolutely awful t1 managed to crash into the barrier which actually managed to knock my front wheel out of alignment with my handlebars so then i had to ride the four kilometers with my wheel going one way my handlebars going the other completely my forks i didn't check if i'd tightened up the headset properly and then unfortunately in t2 i was the last across so i got eliminated so actually each round i think i got progressively worse managed to nail it i think in round one was pretty good in round two and then was pretty shocking in round three all in all though i had so much fun i learnt a ton i swam with a real life shot i surfed a wave i did manage to do one flying mount with success so yeah a lot was achieved and like i said i think i managed to do most of it with half a grimace half a smile on my face so yeah pretty happy [Music] so [Music] i mean in general my future with racing is a pretty hectic schedule i've got a lot planned for next year i've obviously got the ironman world championships in st george which have been moved to may i've got the sub 8 project in june and then there will be iron man world championships in october hopefully in kona and then there's the potential for the 70.3 worlds in st george again after kona so that's my schedule without even thinking about short course so i've definitely got some difficult decisions to make i need to decide if i want to do some short course racing before i go back to iron man stuff around may time and then i need to look at if it's even physically possible to put short course in in the back half of the year and realistically if i don't do that then i'm just not going to have enough points and things are going to be difficult so there's a lot of decisions to be made i feel in a really fortunate position that there's so many positive routes to go down i'm not really sure what i want to do at the minute but whatever it is i know i will go all in and give it 100 but for now i'm just looking forward to going home having some down time with lola celebrating the fact that i'm a world champion celebrating my birthday because i haven't done it properly yet and also running the london marathon which is something that i've always wanted to do and do in a fun way not actually of any pressure time's on the horizon and yeah just super excited to see where i'll go next just finally i'd like to say thank you to all of the amazing fans that i met in malibu it was pretty overwhelming with how many of you were there so thanks for making my time in malibu so special thanks for watching this video i hope you enjoyed my little wrap-up of super league and as always make sure to like and subscribe as we will try and bring you as many videos documenting our journey as possible [Music] that is a g wagon have you got a picture with that yeah i sent it to him louise that's what we're getting when we get that is exactly what i want i mean that's probably worth more than our house but it's worth it

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Length: 24min 2sec (1442 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 01 2021