Off Season is OVER | 100x100s Swimming Challenge

Off season is over and it's time to get back to work for the upcoming season! Here's a look back at what the team got up to in the time off and an insight into how the training regime will begin this year!
Its been a fun-filled off season, with nights out for dinner, a holiday to Cornwall, visiting the local school for a talk, and plenty of quality puppy time with Lola! To be fair there were still plenty of sporting challenges, including the yearly tradition of completing 100x 100s in the pool on Christmas eve-eve ( and the yearly tradition of arguing about whether it's the whole day or just the evening! )
January 1st rolls around and it's time to get back to Pain Cave and start to prepare for the upcoming races. Lucy and Reece share some plans for the new year including how they are planning to approach training differently and how they are going to approach structure and diet.
Comment below letting us know what you think- is Christmas eve the whole day or just the evening?
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Produced by: Holly Charles
Additional footage: Darren Wheeler, Talbot Cox & James Mitchell
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[@richardjuniper]

Glad to see you broke into the new season slowly by getting out at 4:52am on Jan 1st! Nutters 😁

[@sandles003]

Lol 🤣🤣🤣 Christmas eve is the WHOLE DAY

[@jdubMAD1]

Christmas Eve is the whole day before Christmas Day. Christmas Evening is the night of Christmas Day.

[@philipgibsone5351]

Your off season is the eve of something great. Good luck chaps

[@DaveGe77]

Thank you both for the inspiration! I like the concept of a high-volume, lower-intensity training period. Always enjoy following you. Go, Lucy!!

[@williamoliver5437]

Wow, extremely helpful breakdown of training schedule! The types of workouts, time spent, etc...

[@lazarsankovic5767]

Great video I really hope you will continue to put up videos during the season , your team and life is just so interesting and inspiring to me ,makes me wanna train more and be better. Wish you all the best in 2020 let's get that KONA win !

[@decoeric]

Reece, Happy wife happy life. All day is Christmas Eve... ;-)

[@ashleymodder1342]

Truly inspiring 🙌 ✨️ thank you for bringing me hope, happiness and courage

[@vsrugby]

Great update and insight into your training Lucy beautifully edited have an awesome 2020 season 🤗💯

[@rickvanduin11]

Looking forward to following you guys for another season this year!

[@keithorourke30]

Great insight Thanks for sharing, Just subscribed best of luck to you both for the season ahead. 🏊‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏃‍♂️

[@pebblemariegrier8666]

Hi Lucy and Reese,I am in the United States(Kansa city Mo).I am a constant viewer and loyal to your channel.Just started watching Trialathon s because of hard you both train! Absolutely your channel is my favorite!!Love all your Red Bull apparel Lucy.Good Luck at Kona this year!!!!!!!.You rock!!!!! wish you the best...Pebbles

[@alisonwilks302]

Lucy defo correct about eve eve !!! I love the videos - makes my training look puny 😂❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@nemamime3334]

Really appreciate insights at the end of the video, it helps me with getting perspective on my own training.

[@daniellucente4409]

This was so cool and insightful. Thank you! Good luck this season ,Team Charles-Barclay!

[@fernandog.aguirre2791]

Great video, great music!!!!!Have a great and healthy2020! Cheers from Maui!

[@hayleynewman5044]

I did what I like to call the double double park run, so Christmas eve, christmas day and new years eve and new years day. With no structured plan over the break this was a fun thing to do

[@robbo3132]

Nice fun video! Learned a lot and am impressed with all the shots and editing

[@elizabethwireman-nothwang8039]

Just here to see the new pup! :)

[@inferno4001]

I thought the title read "off season". Nevertheless, I imagine that Lucy's off season is way more intense than my "on season". You go girl!

[@JonathanJScottFilms]

The title is "Off season is over" 😂

[@McStoolio]

The night before is Christmas Eve. No doubt. Lol, those eyes coming out the pool.

[@vanessabautistamira3473]

Best of luck in 2020 !!! Nice off season you had and Lola is a great swimmer too !

[@ChadSterley]

Great video guys, highly enjoyed!

[@bradjanse8710]

Really enjoyed the more detailed share on the type of training and base phase volume numbers. Good luck for 2020!

[@McStoolio]

You are both incredible. I’d love to see your detailed training plan, how much time you spend on conditioning etc. Utmost respect for you both.

[@triswimcoach57]

A wonderful video to give insights into your training progression, strategy, and tactics. In your home training room, I think I saw a Vasa swim erg trainer in the background. How do you like it and use it, especially with all the other swimming opportunities you have? Would it be good for time-starved age-groupers to use if they cannot get to the pool often? Thanks

[@SAWY81]

I know Reece is a coach and that you Lucy also have personal coaching experience. But do you think that may be having a dedicated coach would take you both to the next level? Look at Lionel Sanders for example. He seems to responding really well to his new coach. Anyways.... good luck with the new season!

[@dshipper100]

10k swim jesussss

[@padeksewenejt1032]

yeah... meanwhile I am really happy with myself after doing "only" 2,5k... :-) omg

[@mooNylou]

It's more like a challenge rather than a real training with value.

[@AaaAaa-ry4ji]

My 2 month distance. Swim pool to expencive

[@ejquezad]

Christmas Eve IS the whole day.

[@jorgewilkes]

Love the video

[@rosken11]

I always think that you are Duchess Of Cambridge doppelganger.. 😆 good luck in 2020.. i’m rooting for you to win KONA 2020..

[@jerryagnasinii3640]

Let's get the win this year!

[@jamieblack9349]

If you ready the history. It’s called and written the evening before Christmas, which only means the evening. The rest is called the day before Christmas. So historically Christmas Eve is just the evening.

[@Vallrick]

7:47 that laugh thou

[@michaelkennedy9031]

technically if you are using the term eve to mean evening then Christmas Eve would be the evening of Christmas Day

[@ZachtTucker]

Team Day!

[@pieterOD]

Do you guys get new gear for the year or run with what you have from last year? Ive always been curious as to how many pairs of shoes you go through in a season (tyres for that matter as well) Good luck for the year Ill be rooting hard! Greetings from South Africa Btw. A gear check would be sick cool Shoes Sports watch Bike Tyres Rims This is effort I know, but it will be cool

[@GogglesTyresandTrainers]

Meh, your triathlon accomplishments are one thing, what has really impressed me is being able to get a Jack Russell to obey a command!!! ;) HNY, 2020 is your year at Kona :)

[@evhchiro]

The Whole Day!!!

[@jamesion9817]

It's really cool to get an insight into two great athletes. But the editing needs tweaking as it was hard to follow the thread at times... That said I am looking forward to what's to come plus the van tour 😉

[@ryanwilson7251]

Great video! Curious, what did you do your 100x100 at?

[@Wilfgood]

Interested in that as well

[@piertechinc]

For some reason I feel like buying a red bull after watching the video.

[@Chaz8su]

That’s a lot of millage! You’re going to have to eat a lot of plants!

[@neillgowans4350]

Love you guys. You’re both muppets. 😂

[@martintotterdale765]

Great info thanks very much for this insight. Hope the less meat works for you, am experimenting too and feel great!!

[@brettbale9535]

Reece is a world champion purse holder.

[@356z]

Can we get a tour of the pain cave 😍

[@mollyshazza2384]

Yesss

[@joe_bhop]

why so cool

[@PrincessWarriorNatalie]

Happy New Year!! When/if you get sick, do you rest or push through?

[@dustinquigley1700]

"eve noun: eve; plural noun: eves the day or period of time immediately before an event or occasion."

[@shikharmukherji1236]

This doesn't clarify it because it says 'day or period of time'.

[@mlegrand]

Christmas Eve is short for Christmas Evening so . . . . #teamEvening

[@wrxzboost]

curious what percentage of FTP do you lose over the off season from Kona? do you re-test and start fresh in january? this video was insightful and entertaining. lola is a cutie.

[@samw156]

My dad and I were basically bullied out of our local pool a few years ago, for swimming "too fast". My dad was around 2:00/100m and I was even slower then. "iF YoU WaNt tOo sWiM FaSt yOu sHoUlD JoIn a cLuB"

[@BenjisBoxingChannel]

Lmao that's a bit shitty. Where I go there are lanes, fast, medium and slow. For some reason you still get fast swimmers go in the slow and slow swimmers going in the medium and fast. I guess it's just people are arses.

[@RoryCarterman]

Happy New Year! All the best for 2020 💪 interested to know what routine was the 100x100 going on? Tx

[@nmbrown]

If ‘eve’ meant evening, then Christmas Eve would be the evening of Christmas Day

[@livebigdreamsnow]

Were you guys putting on sun screen during the 1k track reps?

[@SeppeSnoeck]

Yeay for less meat 🙌

[@islajoy239]

what time were you guys doing those 100's on?

[@sandmannwolf6202]

like paris hilton, just sporty :)

[@mattiamicheletta9931]

at what pace? min:sec/100m

[@dexterholland91]

Hi Guys, awesome video as always. I saw you both using AMP lotion, do you both think it gives a definite advantage no matter how small? I really want to try some but cant seem to source any from the UK, only the US. Thanks :)

[@LucyCharlesBarclay]

dexterholland91 we find AMP lotion great for using before and after a tough session- really helps the legs to recover so it’s definitely worth it!

[@zakarysorensen3946]

The whole day is Christmas Eve...

[@cheeseeetearmayol8021]

First comment deserves a ❤️

[@goldenpine2834]

What swim wear do u use

[@swimmergirl225]

Why is Reece in a very expensive tech suit for the 100x100s? I couldn't imagine squeezing into a LZR for 100x100s I would lose blood flow to my feet by 25

[@kerambeach]

Maybe he took two size up, losing compression but still have more buoyancy and more glide?

[@pjesnik13]

Great to see rowing machine being used (not just for show) But, you should probably watch some videos on "how to do rowing movement properly".. From what I see you don't get much out of it and could end up injuring your self :/

[@Captainsparkist]

2:47 How do you misspell January?

[@samtwine42]

17:25 please let me coach your rowing technique

[@davidhunter6918]

Can we follow you on strava?

[@redflash09021981]

I like the video, so thumbs up, but the RB product placement is annoying and misleading.

[@redflash09021981]

@dave o Who said that? I wouldn't have mentioned "RB" explicitly if I thought so. I always wondered who else drinks RB during swim training...

[@lenkiewitcz]

How many of us immediately jumped on google?

[@jakou31]

Oh nooo ... that acnee 7:32 .. poor Lucy :'( .. You still a funny missile