The Final Touches | Behind the Scenes at Dubai T100

Oh you know what I've done? Tied this on the wrong side. Blubbering idiot. Right let's start again. Went to the Alps, get some training done um but I must have got COVID or something like that in London so actually the Alps were really really rough but I still was worth it because when I got back home in September I was in really good shape and um just kept my head down, kept training, went to Ibiza, had my best performance and my worst results so it was all looking good and then went out to Kona, did all right over there and then that was three weeks ago. What do you mean you had your best performance but your worst result? I finished the closest I've ever finished to the front of the race, I had my best bike numbers and I came 14th which is my worst result in the series so far but that's what it is. You didn't have your best swim. I did have the best swim but that would have helped if you'd had the same swims in London and then I had a good swim in London yeah but can't pick and choose. Yes that's the goal for this weekend, swim quicker. Have I fixed it? I think so just try really hard. I always try really hard. It's a good thing we don't pay for these wheels. Oh I'm a bit tired, I guess that's probably what the feeling is for most people that uh still I think anything's possible and actually yeah it's just been a lot of training, a lot of racing and now it's time to get fresh and be ready to rock and roll. I mean you're a main contender. Yeah of course, of course I mean I think it can be interesting for a while you feel invincible and then you start to realize but that's what training is supposed to do, it's down and then when you rebuild you get stronger and um I think I've been really consistent across the races this year and so like I mean I'm highly confident I'll put out a similar performance and we've seen different placements from similar performances and so yeah I know almost exactly what I'm capable of and the goal is just to go out and do that. I've never raced in the Middle East, I've never been in the Middle East so we'll see if the yo-yo-yo vibe is strong here obviously that would be pretty cool if it was but it's cool like to go all around the world in Singapore and London and I mean in London to be getting as many or maybe even more cheers than Alistair Brownlee it was definitely not something I expected and obviously it obviously encourages me to do my best and it's I mean I would get the most out of myself no matter what but it is like it puts a big smile on my face and reminds me that this is actually fun even though the racing hurts so much and um yeah to go out there and I think a lot of people are not as good as swimmers, triathletes right like me and so they can really resonate with my journey and what I'm doing. Do you know where the interviews are taking place? You're leading me there? Hello, how are you? I'm good, I'm Julie. Hi Julia, see you, take a seat. I'll be looking at you. Yes. Well I've been here already a week so when I got here that was fine I flew from Switzerland from Zurich so it was quite smooth. Yeah you're right I'm enjoying the racing also the whole experience about racing different races that I haven't done in the past so that's really nice yeah sort of a bonus at the end of this year to be able to come into these races get the chance to race the best girls on this distance and see where I'm at and yeah I must say I didn't enjoy myself during the race in Las Vegas this was a really really hard day but overall I've had yeah great somewhere outside? Yeah it was really good we were in um it's called district one it's so it's inside that made on the cycling track like the nine kilometer loop. It's the last time I could be talking to you as not a world champion so come on turn it over my friend. I want to I want to join I want to join the camp of being world champion. Oh man that t-shirt needs an update. You're still living in the past 2016. Yeah I know that's all. Oh good man all right I'll leave you to it enjoy it I'll see you this afternoon I think. Yeah yeah see you buddy. How do you get to the pubs? Yeah you need something. I mean I have this at home but not in Australia. A little bit more. 31 also so it's like jacuzzi whirlpool. I didn't expect it to be so warm. I don't think it's that warm. Yeah yeah that is true there's no clouds there's no protection. It's very hot I mean I think it's it's like 29 degrees today so it's a bit better than what it's been but middle of the day it's in the 30s and a little bit humid which I think uh if I hadn't known that I wouldn't have expected it in the desert but yeah the humidity is not nothing and uh everything here is a bit extreme because like even this tent is extremely air conditioned so it's like extreme hot a little bit over air conditioned back and forth. I think it's a pretty good course for me lots of corners it's a little bit less like pure time traveling um so that definitely is is nice for me and because it's quite warm as well I usually am pretty good in the heat so um yeah I guess we'll see but I don't know there's a lot of strong women you just don't really know what this heat's gonna do to everybody. I don't normally float but it's salt water so you know I can get the extra buoyancy. Oh yeah. Is it nice or is it too hot? It doesn't feel as hot as I thought it would Not nearly as hot as Singapore On your marks I caught up an Olympic champ I definitely don't want down a hole Good job Yuri What the heck? He cut me off and his goggles fell off. It's okay That's karma