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Daniela Ryf “YOUR POSITION AT THE SPLIT TIME DOESN’T MATTER. YOU’VE GOT TO CROSS THE FINISH LINE FIRST” Ryf says she’d rather be the hunter than the hunted stages of recovery. When she could turn her head a centimetre more than the week before, she celebrated. On the eve of the year’s first Ironman, it was still unclear whether Ryf would be able to complete the swim at all; she was still receiving treatment from a chiropractor shortly before the event got underway. But still she threw herself into it, completing the swim, giving everything on the bike and eventually winning the race. A happy ending, then? No. This was just the salutary opening gambit of a powerful, secret mental weapon. Anything that slows you down is a dead weight that you can throw off next time. “I’ve started every race since South Africa with less weight on my shoulders,” explains Ryf. “I think of the extent to which that injury put limitations on me and yet it couldn’t stop me winning. And then I’m happy that there’s absolutely nothing putting limitations on me right now. I imagine myself throwing off the dead weight from back then, and I think of how I can do even better now. That thought is like an extra ace up my sleeve.” Mistakes bring wisdom July 3, 2016, Ironman European Championship, Frankfurt This was an important race for Ryf. She wanted to win it, as she had done the year before, both to assert her position and to gain greater confidence for the next race. She was also aiming to qualify for the season highlight in Kona, Hawaii. But there were already signs of things not going to plan during the swim. It was a cool day, the water wasn’t warm, and Ryf couldn’t get into her rhythm. She placed all her hopes on her specialist field – the cycling – but her problems just seemed to get bigger. Travelling at speeds of 40kph with a cold wind to contend with, Ryf’s skinny frame – she’s 1.75m tall and weighed 57kg – cooled down ever further, then went on strike. Her pedalling had no more power and she was dropping down through the field. For the first time in her life, she ended up retiring, bitterly disappointed and humiliated. “That was an abject day for me,” Ryf says. “But I learnt a lot.” She took away two valuable lessons from Frankfurt. The first: “I’d always thought I could achieve whatever I wanted as long as I trained hard enough and got the most out of my body. But I also have to pay attention to the small details of what my body needs to be able to work perfectly.” In this case, it might have been enough to put on an extra layer of clothing when she got on the bike, maybe just a pair of arm-warmers. The second lesson? “It doesn’t matter how good I am when I’m good, it matters how good I am when I’m bad. Ever since that day, I’ve known I’m only really seriously prepared when I can win a race on a bad day.” The most important realisation was that while mistakes may drive you mad, it’s better to learn from them. Defeat focuses your senses October 11, 2014, Ironman Hawaii A month after winning the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Canada, Ryf lined up at the start in Kona for her first Iron Man Hawaii. She’d already had an extremely successful season, winning more World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) prize money than any other female 38 THE RED BULLETIN
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