Athlete Interviews
Athlete Interview: Racing 11 Hybrid Events in One Season
Tuesday, 4 November 2025 · 3 min read · HybridRaceCalendar Editorial
A European age-group athlete on scheduling, burnout, and what eleven races in a year actually teaches you.
"The first four races I treated every one as a peak. By race five I was flat and I could not work out why."
The fix was structural: two A-races per year, everything else raced as a training stimulus at roughly 90 percent effort.
Travel discipline mattered more than any training tweak — arriving a day early turned bad races into consistent ones.
The advice for new athletes: race more often than feels sensible in year one, then get selective in year two.