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Ellie Simmonds OBE: The unseen costs of being a pioneer in sport (E141)

The High Performance Podcast

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How to Break World Records

I think for you have that one goal and that's normally at a parallel I would be able to do a threshold set or a max session and hit a certain time. So it was definitely cutting down the little things to make it to achieve that big goal. There's also a real element of a control here and a good lesson for people. You know, if you're swimming 400 meters, that's a long way in a swimming pool. If you go out and give it everything for the first 50, you've blown up, right? You can't go sprinting. So you have to know yourself so well and know that for the first 300 meters, you can swim faster, right

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