Setting and adjusting goals-Ruth Astle - a podcast by Helen Murray

So often when you think everything is going well in life, something comes up that puts a spanner in the works.  Perhaps you get injured training for a big race, something happens to a close friend, or work suddenly becomes mega stressful. But do you adjust your goals as a consequence? 
This week we hear from someone who has become an expert at setting and adjusting goals and managing expectations. 
Over the last few years, Ruth Astle has juggled a really busy job in the City alongside training to be one of the best Age Group triathletes in the world. This year, she set herself a goal of becoming overall Age Group World Champion at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii. 
But earlier in the summer, Ruth had a bike crash and had to re-adjust her target. But she actually went on to achieve her original aim.In this episode, I travel to London to get Ruth’s perspective on
Getting into the Zwift Academy and being mentored by Sarah True and Tim DonBecoming age group World Champion
Finally turning ProThe decision to continue working one day a week
The benefits of working with Alan Murchison to dial in on her nutritionShe also reveals her guilty pleasure on the turbo!  
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INTERVIEW TIME LINE**interview times, not the whole episode
01.00 Juggling full time work and training to become the best Age Group athlete in the world. I don’t think it is that hard when you know what it is that you want.  I think if you organised about it and you know what your priorities are.
02.30: I get up between 4.30-4.45 and it’s working out how I can fit things into my day and I have a really understanding boss.03.30 I have had times when busy training weeks have coincided with busy work weeks and when that happens, it is horrendous and I feel brain fired, but I know those weeks aren’t every week and I just kind of get through it.
04.25 – Fuelling properly. This year I have worked with Alan Murchison. On working with Alan Murchison it made me less anal about what I was doing. He got me more into the mindset of balancing my meals well and I was eating more carbs than previously. I started to feel much better from it. I’ve been make his energy balls and surprise surprise my training on the early morning sessions has been a lot better.
05.25 I love chocolate, wine and gin and I don’ like to deny myself things.06.00 - keeping things fun. I think people are choosing to do it If I was trying to control everything, I would have given up a few years ago.
06.30 – on Kona this year. I think it was better. Having set that goal of becoming age group world champ. I adjusted my goals and tried really hard to not get carried away. I don’t think I would have been fine had I not achieved it, but I was trying to convince myself I was.
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