Cat Taylor

It’s been over two years since I last had to really dig into the alternative training barrel. I’ve been quite lucky recently not to get injured, or maybe quite good at dealing with small niggles as they arose. But after I got drawn in to trying so hard to finish the season, I messed up my Achilles insertion (and the surrounding stabilising tendons) so much that by the start of my new training year, I wasn’t nearly ready to run. After two sedentary weeks it was great to get out again, but it’s

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Cat Taylor

I’ve reached the end of my training break. In one sense it’s long overdue, as I didn’t take one at all last year, and I think that’s where it all started to go wrong. Motivation is high, like then, but I know now that I need the time off and the last two weeks have featured no planned training at all. The last race at Halikko-viesti, with Södertörn. 25manna’s smaller Finnish cousin was a lot of fun and was great as our end of season celebration. A brill team weekend and as a bonus, for most of

Monday, October 29, 2018

Cat Taylor

Last weekend saw 2018’s final World Cup rounds (info, coverage, maps here), four hectic back-to-back race days in and around Prague. As always it a pleasure to be on national team business and both the city and the racing were great, but even after the good last few weeks of training it all felt a bit like doing an exam without studying. I couldn’t quite get the focus I needed for success on any of the three sprint days, and physically I seemed to end up in that unhappy medium place of not being

Friday, October 12, 2018