Ciara McGeehan

There was certainly points of it that were really tough.

Like,

I enjoyed pushing myself but I wish I enjoyed racing more I found racing really really obviously not not tough physically because I was always I always enjoyed whenever the gun went and I was racing but the build-up to the race day and the build-up to toeing the line I just so nervous so so nervous and if that's a lesson for any young people out there you can be nervous and scared

and you can still go and excel.

That your body has a natural ability to become adrenalized.

I switched it from saying I'm nervous to being like I'm adrenalized.

And your body goes into fight or flight.

And it doesn't know that we're not being chased by a saber-toothed tiger and we're not back in the Stone Age and we're having to

fight off animals, our like core still thinks this is a really scary experience and we're going into fight or flight.

And I wish that I had that experience on race day, like my friend Anna, where she was like, I am so excited.

I can't wait to race.

I never really had that.

It happened a couple of times throughout my career.

Not necessarily.

I had an ability to go, like probably that I've been wise up.

Always a blooming struggle.

And it's something that I'll forever wish.

I wish that I had had just that clean period where there was no niggles and you could be consistently training.

And like Steve Vernon always said, you just need B plus training sessions.

You can touch on an A plus one every so often, but you don't... And you shouldn't constantly train at the highest level, at the hardest.