Kona Diary 2019
Kona Day 1 I’m absolutely blown away. My heart is melting for this place, and it’s only Day 1!! Life happens, Kona helps 🥰 Highlights of today include: – 🏃♀&...
Author: Camille King
KONA BABY! IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2019
Months of training, weeks of preparation, days of planning, minutes from the start… I’m waiting in the start pen. I can feel my heart pounding as if it’s going to jump out of my chest. ...
Podium at the ITU World Championships
There are no words to describe the emotions that went through my mind as I crossed the finish line of the ITU World Championships in long distance triathlon in Pontevedra Spain last weekend… An unco...
Road to Ironman
Road to Ironman Thousands of miles, hundreds of hours of training, tens of hours of preparation… and suddenly the minutes are ticking … 4:22am… ring ring… The alarm goes off and I jump out o...
Dealing with Setbacks and Minor Injuries
The ball was rolling. My training was all going well, maybe too well. My run, swim and bike times were improving and I was setting PB in all three disciplines, I had won my first race of the year (S...
Year 2017: New Challenges & New Dreams
Try new things, try the things you are scared of. Learn, fail, fall, fail again. Make glorious mistakes, grow, keep going forward. Don’t worry it isn’t good enough or what others think. Push y...
Racing in the 50km World Championships trial in China & Recovery Tips
The Race I was so thrilled when I found out I had been invited to compete in the 50km World Championships trial in China. The race was the Lake Fuxian 50km Ultra and it doubled as a trial for the Wo...
UTMB OCC 2017 – Don’t Always Stick to the Plan, But Always Stick to Your Vision
I’ve waited a long time to write about my Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) OCC race experience. The truth is I didn’t know how to approach this blog. My race experience was so incredible, I f...
The Race Against Time
To my Beautiful Children It’s been two years exactly since I last wrote to you my precious little Bears (for reference: last article to you, also my first ever blog: “Mummy, why do you do so...
Don’t Wait Until You’re Ready …. Dipping My Toe in the World of Triathlon
I took part in my first triathlon last week, the Salty Sea Dog Sprint distance race, less than three weeks after having ever ridden a road bike. I basically had next to nil experience ridding a road...