Lucy's Super-Sprint Triathlon 🏊‍♀️🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️

Aim

Raising funds for a charity close to my heart ❤️ and a goal to help rebuild my fitness after a number of post-natal obstacles 💪

Having always been active from a young age, for a long time I never had to give my physical fitness a second thought. After a childhood of gymnastics and athletics, I'd often surprise people with my strength and speed...happily performing my party trick of backflips and handstands after a few glasses of wine!

So when I fell pregnant with my first daughter Maisie in 2019, I assumed I'd be able to maintain my fitness levels. Yet, just a few weeks into the pregnancy, I found myself unable to exercise at all because of antenatal issues. 

Then after Maisie's birth, I was diagnosed with postnatal diastasis recti, a condition which causes the stomach muscles to separate. 

It was a slow journey to recovery undergoing physio, and before long I was pregnant with my second baby. 

This pregnancy suffered complications throughout, and tragically resulted in a stillbirth. Given I was grieving my daughter Pip, my diastasis recti seemed pretty irrelevant.

After the birth of my third baby, my rainbow baby boy Isaac in 2022, I was so overjoyed that, again, my returned diastasis recti didn't seem like such a big deal.  

But as the months passed, it dawned on me that my fitness was at an all-time low.

After 5 years of pregnancies and post-natal issues, my body and once strong core was a wobbly mess! My mental health was taking a hit because I wasn't exercising too.

It has been a challenge, but over the last year and a half, I've been slowly but surely rebuilding my fitness.

This Super-Sprint Triathlon is something that would have come easy to a former me. Yet today...it's terrifying! 

There is so much pressure on women to 'bounce back' after having babies, but it is rarely that easy or simple - for all different reasons and circumstances.

I'll be doing it to prove to myself that I can do it and recognize how far I've come! And to power me through, I'll be thinking of all the other mummies and anyone facing fitness obstacles, whatever they might be! 

Meanwhile, I'll be raising money for a cause that's so close to my heart. My daughter Pip (who would be turning 4 this year) had Down's Syndrome, and since her death I've been volunteering and raising money for the Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs Support Group in her memory. The group makes such a huge difference to so many families (and if Pip was here today, it's likely we would have been one of them)  - any donations will be hugely appreciated 🙏

I'll be doing the Hove Super-Sprint Triathlon on Sunday August 31st.

Thank you for reading my story!

* Please note: the swim was unfortunately cancelled on the day due to high winds and unsafe swimming conditions. However, I did complete the full triathlon during my training! 

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made