#14 Kate Mcilroy - The Journey of Learning to Love to Suffer - a podcast by Logan van Beek

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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