HCP #84 - HYROX Phoenix Major #3 Preview and More Points discussion with Lucy Procter

**Anthony** (0:12)
This is episode 84 of the Hybrid Coaching Podcast. In this episode, I sit down with my athlete, Lucy Procter, again, and we preview the milk, not Melbourne, the Phoenix Major that is coming up in a couple days. We go over the solos, the doubles, and just some thoughts, as well as I get her opinion, on the new point structure system. Let's make Hybrid Fitness work for you. Hey, Lucy.

**Lucy Procter** (0:51)
It's going well, thank you. Back so soon.

**Anthony** (0:56)
Very quick, quick turnaround. It's just my normal cohost is preparing for a big race that you are sitting out of this week. I am. Which, sad, but of course we understand it.

**Lucy Procter** (1:11)
Yeah, sad but necessary. I think you just can't keep training so hard, like year round, and I honestly haven't taken a proper break from structure training, maybe like ever for more than a week. So yeah, it was the right time.

**Anthony** (1:27)
So tell me, have you been enjoying your time, not specific for the race?

**Lucy Procter** (1:35)
Yes and no. I think it's been nice to have the option to be a bit more relaxed about things. And in hindsight, it's obviously a good thing because you know, you can't continue a race prep block for like 12 months. It's just not possible. And obviously the HYROX season is demanding and I take my heart off to anyone that is racing all the majors and regionals and worlds. But I promised myself after Chicago that if I qualified in the first half of the season, that I would take some time off because I did not do that after Worlds. And I was starting to feel it and I would rather take a step back now than burn out in May and have a shocker at World Champs. So yeah, I know like, what's the word? What's the word I'm looking for? I know rationally that it's exactly what I should be doing. But some days are tough and I'm second-guessing myself thinking, I should be doing a hard structured block or racing Phoenix or like be in peak condition right now.
And yeah, it's a little battle some days, but yeah, I think it's nice to now be moving into some more structure and I think I'm finally ready to push to race again.

**Anthony** (2:59)
So yeah, you're ready to get hurt again.

**Lucy Procter** (3:03)
Yeah.
You've already done that. You've been giving me these brick sessions. We talked about that on Sunday.

**Anthony** (3:13)
Those are just a little different. You know, those are just a little fun things.

**Lucy Procter** (3:16)
They're fun though, honestly.

**Anthony** (3:18)
I'm really glad. Yeah, I'm really glad you got Tom in to do that.

**Lucy Procter** (3:23)
Yeah, he enjoyed it too, I think.

**Anthony** (3:26)
Did he do the aerobic piece before?

**Lucy Procter** (3:29)
No, so last week, he did the aerobic piece, but he did the run part on the Echo bike. Then we moved into the EMOM and he did one round, so like seven times every three.

**Anthony** (3:42)
Yeah.

**Lucy Procter** (3:43)
And then stopped this week, he did his row thresholds first, straight into the full 42 minutes. So, yeah. But I like the sessions. These are like some of my favorite ever sessions. Like it really, like I screwed up. I drank too much coffee before the one day. But that aside, they're really fun sessions to do.

**Anthony** (4:07)
He sent me a picture of you afterwards laying on the ground and he looked almost bored. And I told him, she looks bored. Like it wasn't hard.

**Lucy Procter** (4:14)
I think at that point I was filling in my notes to you saying, well, I have drunk too much coffee and I had a stitch for the entire hour and 42 minute duration of that session.

**Anthony** (4:27)
That's fantastic.
I love hearing these stories.
It's great. So the big question is, are you going to feel any like, ooh, anxiety or like, I want to get out there. It's time. Like after this weekend, you're watching the races. Are you going to be like, all right, yeah, I'm ready to go again. Or is it going to be more like, okay, I, that's where I'm at now. Here we go into the next block. Here I come, London.

**Lucy Procter** (4:59)
I think somewhere in between. I spent much of January thinking I just am in no position to be on a start line soon. I just want to chill. Melbourne took a lot out of me. We all know how much of a mental battle it was into that race and that plus a jet lag, plus a double race weekend, two back-to-back elite races in two days, something I've never done before. And yeah, it took a lot out of me and I really, really, really needed a rest. And so I took the decision to miss Phoenix because I knew that I just meant it wasn't going to be ready. And I think had I have committed to the race and if I was out in Phoenix right now preparing, I would not be ready. I would be thinking, oh my God, this is too soon to be doing this. So yeah, we might get to Saturday. Oh, sorry, not Saturday, Thursday it is. And I might be like, you know, it's everyone's race day and I kind of missed that feeling a little bit. But I really don't think that's actually enough to outweigh like the kind of coming off the back a bit of mental and physical recovery. And, you know, I'm ready for the next one. I think the thing that kind of gets me is, you know, people are getting fast and those three seconds are hanging over me.