Sport gives the Republic of Ireland manager freedom and she is passionate about why ‘life is about movement’
Pauw turns 60 next month yet exudes enviable fitness, energy and enthusiasm which she attributes to finding time to engage in daily “purposeful” exercise. Even during Ireland’s action-packed quarterly training camps she makes time, not only for herself but for the rest of her backroom staff.
“I’ve had several, how do you say it, applications [memberships]? It’s a waste of money for me. I go one or two times and then I’m bored.”She practically snorts at the suggestion that a gym might be a good place to start if you’re a woman in midlife looking to rediscover your sporting joy. “I am biking every day that I possibly can, maybe 70 to 80 kilometres on a racing bike, out on the roads. I don’t do stationary [biking] unless there is ice or snow. I also run a few times a week and in the winter speed skating, which we do on tracks and artificial ice in the Netherlands. Speed skating is probably my biggest passion, I’ve skated since a child.”
The Col du Tourmalet is a 19km climb with an average gradient of 7 per cent, which tops out at 2,115m, over twice the height of Carrauntoohil. “I’ve kept a bike in America and in South Africa, even in Russia. We cycled in -15 degrees there. They have these huge, wide footpaths in Moscow so we’d do 20-25km one way and then back but on mountain bikes because of the poor surface.”
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