One of the crown-jewels of the European triathlon season, the Triathlon de Gerardmer is welcoming more pros onto the startline than ever before. Project Superman blogger Peter Lissens spoke to race organiser Paul Charbonnier to find out more about this legendary race.
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I’m sat here writing this propped up on cushions and feeling like a truck has hit me. To look at me I’d be the poster boy for not racing long distance triathlon. The pain however will fade, the memory of finally crossing the finish line and becoming an Outlaw will live with me forever.
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This week is going so slowly, why can’t it be Sunday already? I’m sure that many of you also feel like this in the week before the “Big One”. All the preparation has been done, I’m just counting the hours until I get in the water for the start of the Outlaw.
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I don’t remember who described the bike course in Zürich as ‘easy’ but I know that it was a fool. With only 200-height-meters less than Nice, this is by any standard a demanding bike course. The first 30 K’s of the 2-lap course are fast and flat, after that it’s rolling hills (still fairly fast), steep climbs and dangerous descents.
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This past weekend was supposed to be my last big training weekend before I started tapering for the Outlaw. Unfortunately on Thursday I started with a cold, I’m not going to say it’s “Man flu” because that would be too much of a cliché.
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By Peter Lissens
Less than 10 hours before the start, things didn’t look to great for the Athlete Fitting’s hastily assembled relay team. Saturday at 10pm I got a call from John. Two of the runners in the ‘Athlete Fitting’ relay team had dropped out. One had had a bad fall and was injured. It was official: nothing – not one single event that I was involved in – was going to go smoothly this year…
Last weekend professional triathlete Emma-Kate Lidbury did what a lot of pros around the world have tried to do: tame the ‘toughest 70.3 in the world’ at Wimbleball. Leading until the last lap of the run at Ironman 70.3 UK, Emma-Kate was eventually passed by Bella Bayliss and Tamsin Lewis on her way to third (race report here). In her first ever blog for Triathlete Europe, she takes us through the race from her perspective.
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Rav Dighe is a certified British Triathlon coach and co-owner of industrialmultisport.co.uk. As well as offering personalised coaching and training plans, Industrial Multisport produce podcasts with some of the biggest names in triathlon. Rav will be blogging for us as he prepares for his 2010 ‘A’ race, Ironman Nice.
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Things have started to look up in the last week or two, training has been going well and I’ve had a couple of exciting pieces of news that I’ll share with you at the end of this blog.
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“Did you feel like a half-god riding with the pro’s, Peter? Or did you feel like a humble human riding with gods”, Richard from Jersey asked me, when I wrote to him about what I had done: ‘La Fleche Wallonne” with Dave Bruylandts and a Scott pro-riders selection. The answer is that I only felt like half a man, even before the event had really started. And after just one climb and half a descent, my manhood had shrunk to microscopic proportions. Here’s why…
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