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I would like to say a big thankyou and welcome aboard to my new sponsor Chocolate Graphics International. I will be doing my first race for the Chocolate Graphics team at Madrid World Cup in 2 weeks. Once again thank you to John and his team. Please check out their website and happy chocolate eating!!! Liz Posted: Mon, 12th May 2008 |
| Beautiful Byron Bay | |
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I had a hit out on the weekend at the Byron Bay Tri. Byron Bay is a beautiful coastal town on the northern NSW coastline just 50 minutes from my training base on the Gold Coast. I had a great race and had a win. My good friend Bek Keat was 2nd. This was my second win at Byron, the last in 2003, and has been a nice little race to do before heading to Europe.
So on Wednesday I fly to the UK to get ready for the Madrid World Cup and World Champs in Vancouver. Liz Posted: Mon, 12th May 2008 |
| Mooloolaba and New Plymouth | |
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It has been so good to be back racing on the World Cup circuit again after all the ups and downs of the past year. Mooloolaba wasn't exactly the result I was looking for to start off the season, but I bounced back in New Plymouth to take 5th there to today.
I raced in Mooloolaba off a hard block of training and found I had no spark in my legs when I got off to run and ended up 17th. With an easier recovery week and travel to New Zealand for New Plymouth I had the legs to run well and finished 5th, almost 4th but got out sprinted by Ryf from Swiss. It's now back into another solid block of training and getting ready for the Madrid World Cup and then Worlds in Vancouver.
Take care,
Posted: Fri, 7th March 2008 |
| Ups and Downs.... | |
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Well just when I thought 2007 was over and I was starting to look ahead to 2008... bam, I got hit by a car off my bike on the 27th of Dec and broken my hand. The horrible year of 2007 had one last punch at me. But after all of the downs of last year I am starting to train for the new season and the first World Cup at Mooloolaba.
My hand is still not 100% and I still can't swim as yet, but hope to start within the next week or so. I have only been able to ride on the indoor trainer and running has been fine. Looking forward to getting back in the pool and working hard into 2008 Liz Posted: Thu, 10th January 2008 |
| Thailand-Phuket | |
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Liz returned to her squad's training camp following her rehabilitation period in Australia and proved in her first session that her swim fitness was as good as ever. Whilst not being able to ride or run, Lizzy had worked hard to improve her swim and she was actually swimming better than ever, and her bike was also much stronger than anticipated. During her comeback training camp, prior to the Laguna Phuket triathlon, to prevent jeopardizing her progress she just kept to steady, easy running. Orders from her coach, Brett Sutton, were no speed work, everything just at her own pace. The ingenious instructions for the race from her coach were, "Liz, just enjoy yourself, swim as hard as you can, get a gap and be overly careful please on the downhill's and then jog the run. Just try to get the 12km in your legs with no dramas, remember the run course is on dirt, grass, cobbles don’t be tempted, just trot and see where you’re up to." The race went according to plan and better! Liz blasted the swim, got a gap, blasted the hills, descended like a demon – not quite the coach's instructions – and then just kept on going. Liz said, "On the run I felt so strong, so I just kept going," and go she did! Brett Sutton commented, "She's had some success over the longer non-drafting distance races before, but she managed to hold off the other girls who were doing their best to chase her down and we're not talking about just anyone. In the chasing pack there was Chrissie Wellington, the World Ironman Champion 2007; Miranda Carfrae, World 70.3 Champion 2007; and Belinda Granger who finished 8th in Hawaii this year." Posted: Wed, 5th December 2007 |
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