Name: Joyce Wolfe
Hometown: Cork
Training base: Cork
Race Team: Tríspórt
Sponsors: Tríspórt, Sailfish/Niblock Enterprises
Coach: Pete Freedman
Website/blog: Currently non existent as struggle to find spare time between full time work and training hard
Twitter: As above
What are your planned events/distances for 2012?
I’m currently in a rather different stage than most athletes at the moment as I’m pregnant, due for end of July. However I do hope to return to competition before the end of the year and I’m tempted by Lanzarote 70.3 in November and my first solo marathon at the end of the year, watch this space……
What are your goals for 2012 and what are you working on now to make them happen?
As things are rather different for me at the moment so are my goals. I currently just want to stay fit and enjoy training as my body allows for the first half of the year and then to make a steady return to training again as my body allows in the second half of the season. All this will be different for me as I go through the different stages of pregnancy and is very exciting. Perhaps through my experience I can help other women out there in similar shoes as the information on training through pregnancy is limited.
Will you race in Ireland this year?
I would absolutely love to do the Lost Sheep this year again as I’ve done it 5 years in a row, every year with a podium finish but it may be a little too soon after the birth, I will see, otherwise I will probably do a few late season duathlons and road races.
In recent years the Irish triathlon records have been tumbling. Do you have your eyes set on a new Irish record this year? If so what distance?
I had my eyes very much set on the Irish ironman record for the past two years, I missed it by 48 seconds in 2010 and smashed it by 30 minutes in 2011 which is my greatest sporting highlight to date but there will be no records on the horizon this year as currently I’m just getting slower and slower and larger!
What advantage does being Irish give you over your rivals?
I’m not fully sure, I thought the hardiness of training through cold wet winters and summers might give an edge but for me I’m not so sure as I learnt the hard way this year in Galway 70.3 after suffering with hypothermia that I ain’t so tough and cold weather racing is not my forte!! However it is a bliss when you train on dead roads in Ireland and then race on super smooth roads in Europe and find that your speed is way up with regard to effort.
Tell us something not a lot of people know about you?
Apparently I have an ferocious appetite for my daily morning porridge, I just go by eye as I’ve a dedicated porridge pot but my husband who thinks its a little unusual has measured it as 200g of dried oats. I’ve yet to be rivaled!
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