Lucy Charles-Barclay feels like she’s in the shape of her life ahead of her bid to win a second Ironman world title, and she has the data to prove it.
She has spent five intensive weeks training at Club La Santa, a triathlete’s haven in Lanzarote, posting career-record numbers for watts on the bike and lactate levels while running, the latter translating to a theoretical marathon time of sub 2hr 30min – that is if her marathon didn’t follow a 3.8km swimming and a 180km cycle. “These are the best numbers I’ve ever seen,” she says, sounding almost disbelieving.
