In this episode, host van Beek and Mcilroy dive deep into her journey and cover a number of key moments in her career; Chapters Intro/winter training (2:14) Childhood/Key moments/Early lessons (4:12) 2005 World Mountain Running Championships (8:15) Winning the Halberg Sportswoman of the Year award (12:17) How Kate ended up competing in the 3000m Steeplechase (13:26) Bed ridden to racing in front of 90,000 people - Competing at the 2006 Commonwealth Games (16:20) How Olympic athletes get their...
In this episode, host van Beek and Mcilroy dive deep into her journey and cover a number of key moments in her career;
Chapters
- Intro/winter training (2:14)
- Childhood/Key moments/Early lessons (4:12)
- 2005 World Mountain Running Championships (8:15)
- Winning the Halberg Sportswoman of the Year award (12:17)
- How Kate ended up competing in the 3000m Steeplechase (13:26)
- Bed ridden to racing in front of 90,000 people - Competing at the 2006 Commonwealth Games (16:20)
- How Olympic athletes get their training right in order peak for a major event (19:16)
- The 'added pressure' New Zealand endurance athletes have going into World Champs and Olympic events – Learning to shut out external noises (21:44)
- 1st Turning Point - 2008 Olympic dream dashed by injury (25:14)
- Next Challenge - not telling anyone you were training for Triathlon (28:26)
- What a training week looks like for Professional Triathlete (33:30)
- Slashing her toe during a race and still being able to finish the event (36:22)
- Fulfilling a dream - The 2012 Olympic games Journey (39:22)
- "Always fighting time" - racing at events when you are not 100% fit (43:53)
- Career Low - Being "detrained" for the 2014 Commonwealth Games (48:47)
- 2nd Turning Point – "I was told I would never run again" (52:37)
- Picking herself up after career ending injury – accepting not being an athlete anymore (56:09)
- A burning desire to compete - The start of a Professional Cycling career (58:40)
- The sexism in Professional Cycling - Kate's shock entering the sport (1:01:30)
- Dramatic stories from a couple of Cycling Road Races in NZ – LeRace/Rice Mountain Classic (1:04:14)
- Why Kate loves endurance sport - "You learn to love to suffer" (1:08:49)
- The mental side of being an endurance athlete (1:10:08)
- A Mental or Physical skill you would of loved to have in your career (1:13:51)
- 3rd Commonwealth Games - 3rd different sport (1:14:59)
- A new challenge - Starting a Mountain Biking career (1:18:14)
- Advice for a young athlete starting their Running/Triathlon/Cycling career (1:22:06)
- The beginning of Kate's cycling coaching journey (1:24:22)
- How Kiwi athletes are able to compete on the world stage with our lack of resources (1:25:31)
- Transferable skills athletes can bring to corporate environment (1:26:36)
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