Lisa Oldershaw
RAT IN A TRAP
We’re playing ’20 questions’ with our members…!
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Name? Lisa Oldershaw - Age Group? 35 to 39 (just hanging in there unfortunately!)
- Profession? Senior Buyer / Category Manager
- Favourite Cheese? Soft Goats Chevre
- Why do you do Triathlon/Multisport? I love IM day. Like being fit and fitter than the majority of the population!! Enjoy training outdoors (when it is warm!!)
- What is your most favourite event? Ironman
- What bike (bikes) do you ride and what would you REALLY like to ride? Specialised Ruby – A black one, also have a red one and a blue mountain bike!!! Lawrence picks my bikes, I pick on colour!!!! Would like to ride one with a secret motor at the moment.
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Out of the different disciplines, which is your most favourite and which one is the least favourite? Most fav… joint Swim and run, least definitely the bike. - Are you coached or do you make up your own regime of punishment? Lawrence (husband) coaches me, it’s his business. I married him so I didn’t have to pay the fee’s anymore!
- Who is an athlete you admire? Not one name but the guys who know they are going to do a 16hr+ ironman and just keep going and going for all those hours, chokes me up when I see them cross the line.
- Training, work, family – how do you fit it all in? Very very hard, Ironman is all consuming. A good plan is key and not getting stressed out about missing a session to spend some non triathlon time with people you love – life is all about balance.
- How long have you been a RAT and what do you like about the club? Became a RAT not long after we moved to NZ (Sept 2007). Like the spontaneous invites like the Okereka 3K swim and run back was just brilliant, to be able to swim in such gorgeous open water on such a beautiful day just blows me away, makes me smile when I am swimming!!! An aquired skill! No tri club in the UK has access to these kind of natural facilities
- On a sunny day, what do you prefer – MTB or road bike? DEFINITELY road bike every time, I am such a wimp on a MTB
- How many ACC claims due to sport injuries? None………yet
- Most favourite riding loop (MTB or Road)? Still exploring but…around lake anticlockwise – Penny Road – Otorua Road – Mamaku – Dansey Road - Paradise Valley loop – Home – Bath – chill out
- Most favourite run loop? Anywhere in the Redwoods
- What would you do with all your spare time and money if you wouldn’t train and race and spend all of your and your wife/husband/partner/families money on sports gear you really badly need? Travel around a lot more – still loads on NZ to see then more world wide travel……..would never stop running or swimming though.
- What event would you really like to do one day? The Bloody Good Race
- Do you think swimming should be turned into an optional discipline in triathlon? No the bike should!
- Any suggestions for the club? Some run sessions / timed distance sessions, speed work etc, especially in the winter when after work routes are limited because of the dark. A link up page for indiviauls looking for a partner to ride with out of the normal club ride times / speeds