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Last year, former swimmer-turned-Ironman triathlete Lucy Charles made an incredible pro racing debut at the Kona Ironman World Championship, scooping a second place podium after dominating much of the bike leg. Not bad for someone who’d never even sat on a road bike before signing up for her first Ironman just over three years ago.

Here, the Red Bull athlete and former professional swimmer chats about bike falls, her love of Zwift, and how there’s more in her swim-bike-run tank for 2018.