The other day we had an awesome time when we had given the chance to be part of the first Tri11 Photo Shoot along the beaches of the island Poel.
We had an awesome time and shot way more than 2000 pics. These here are just a few for you folks to look at.
I hope they express how much fun we had up there. The best part though was after the shoot to jump in the wetsuits and swim along the coast to where all the nudes were hanging out. We swam as close as we could to the beach and than all together got out of the water in the middle of naked, ugly ass Germans. ( And I can say that cause I am German and trust me, the ones around me were ugly. !)
That's why they call it a 'Speedsuit'
Life is beautiful - Cycling in a war zone!
0 comments Posted by Tridudes - Triathlon Blog at 10:52 AM
'Training is never easy, whether you are a road cyclist, mountain biker, runner or a triathlete. In southern Israel these days, even the most dedicated athletes face one more problem: the missiles being shot.
Over 1,000,000 men and women are in a war zone they can't escape from.
Anyways, this is not about the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, it's about training in Israel these days. We are a group of road cyclists and triathletes who live in the city Beer Sheva and the surrounding area. Beer Sheva is located about 40 km east from Gaza, and for the last two weeks rockets hit beer sheva nearly every day. There were even two rockets that landed 200 meters from my house.
On ordinary days in the past, we used to ride our bikes two times a week to the beautiful places that surround Gaza. It’s one of Israel's most interesting places. We used to stop at Beery Kibbutz, which located no more than five km from Gaza, to drink some coffee, take some pictures and get back on the bikes after a short rest.The Israeli road and time trial championships took place on the "Urim" circuit.
The area is a paradise for mountain biking and people from all across Israel used to come and ride there. Now that’s all just a memory, these places are being shot at by the missiles.Choosing a training place became really hard thing to do.
You can't run outside town, because there is no shelter. You can't go to the gym, because it's closed. We have only one direction to ride on our bike trainings, and it is a very crowded road. The beginning and the ending of the course is still not safe from the rockets.
On one of our training sessions, the air raid siren caught us and we had to stop and try to hide.
I hope that some day things will change. All we want is a normal life and to do what we love- train and race!
Lev Kholmer
Beer Sheva, Israel'
Lev.kholmer@gmail.com
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Swedish Iron Distance Championships by Clas Bjoerling
0 comments Posted by Tridudes - Triathlon Blog at 5:35 AMHi athletes and friends, This is a race report from our friend and Swedish Ironman Pro Clas Bjoerling who just won the Swedish Iron Distance Championship in record time. Don't forget to check his website CLAS BJORLING for more info on his fight against burn out, glandular fever and his way back to pro level racing.
'Welcome
It was 3 years ago since I raced my last Ironman, it was Ironman UK and I finished 2:nd. The race itself went well but the weeks after that race my body slowly started show serious signals of fatigued but I had more plans for the season and tried to ignore them, so my fatigue just grew deeper and deeper and 3 month later I couldn’t even move out of bed, I was seriously overtrianed and burned out. What I didn’t know then was that it was going to take almost 3 years before I was strong enough to be on an Ironman start line again.
It was in January earlier this year where my body started to be strong enough so I could do some good training days, but still followed by many recovery days, but as the winter and spring went by I have been able to train a little bit more and my fitness have slowly grown.
It was 6 weeks ago that I decided to race this Ironman distance race in Sweden that also works as the Swedish Championship over that distance. I have not raced this Swedish Ironman before as I have just raced international Ironmen but as the Swedish Ironmandistance record holder it would of course be fun to be the Swedish champion in that distance as well.
The last weeks training leading up to the race had gone well, I had got some very good workouts from my long term friend and training buddy Gordo Byrn to get myself in my best shape possible.
My last minute preparation went well and I felt very relaxed and ready so when the gun went off at 7 am I was happy to finally be moving. The swim was 2 laps on a 1930 m course. I got into a good group after a few hundreds meters but due to the waves I lost the group in the end of the first lap and swam the 2:nd lap by myself, overall the swim splits were slow due to the waves and current but I was a little surprised that I used 1.01 for the swimleg and I lost some more time then I expected to the guys in front but didn’t care to much about that as I just tried to focus on my own race. The bike course was a 30 K out and back loop that we rode 3 times, so 180 K total. We got to meet each other many times and I saw that I just lose some time to the race leader Ted As but was closing in or kept the gap to most other guys. I rode very controlled and kept my HR between 140 to 145.
After a bike split of 4.34 it was finally time to get into my running shoes. I was now in 5:th place, just a few minutes up to 2:nd but 14.5 minutes up to 1:st place. The run course was a 7 K out and back loop that we ran 3 times, so total 42.2 K.
I quickly fell into a comfortable pace and put the K:s behind me. After 10 K I ran myself into 2:nd place and I just felt better and better, after 2 of the 3 loops I was 7 minutes behind the race leader, and as I felt like my 2:nd place was safe as no one was closing in from behind and I decided to give it a go and try to catch Ted in the lead. I knew I had to close most of the gap going out to the last turnaround as I knew that when he was going to try to speed up the last leg home to the finish when we saw that I was closing, so I put the hammer down and ran hard out to the turnaround with 7 K to the finish. I was now only 1.38 minutes back, and just as I thought he would do he kind of panicked and speed up as much as he could, but I manage to catch him with 3 K to go, and just when I caught up op him he tried to drop me by doing a last surge, but by now my adrenaline was pumping so I had no problems to follow, and after 300 to 400 m I was able to put in a surge and I got a small gap, and when this happened I just kept running as hard as I could and the gap grew quickly, but even if people on the side of the road said my victory looked safe I was in some kind of out of body experience and just kept running hard, it’s funny how it works, when you run along in some kind of medium pace you feel every pain in your feet and muscles, but when you come in a situation like I was in now you don’t feel anything at all, you are just so focused on pushing yourself that you don’t feel anything or nothing can disturb your focus. I don’t remember so much from these last K:s running, I just kind of woke up when I had crossed the finish line and I was so happy, it’s still hard for me to put my feelings in word (and it’s not because English is my 2:nd language ) . It has been 3 long years of suffering from overtraining, adrenal burnout, by long-time girlfriend Kristy Gough death…. It have just felt like it would never end, and even if a victory like this doesn’t change some things it does feel like it’s a little revenge for the things that I have gone through over the last years and Kristy will always have a special place in my heart.
It also shows that if you really believe in what you are doing and want something very badly you can achieve it even if the odds are working against you.
Even if I of course was very happy to be winning the race, get the Gold medal in the Swedish Championship and set a new course record in a time of 8.26 in this 15 year old race the biggest victory was still just the fact that I have gotten my health back and was able to finish an Ironman again, and hopefully I will be able to finish my Ironmans again in the future and if I place well and break records that will be a big bonus . If I can just keep training and racing with my heart instead of my ego the results will come too !!
What also was very fun at the race was that the Swedish Paralympics gold medallist swimmer Anders Olsson http://www.jarnmannen.se/ raced his first Ironman and finished in a fantastic time of 10.51, now he will try to qualify for Ironman Hawaii next year.
Now it’s almost a week since I past that finish line and I’m starting to be able to set back and relax a little, the media exposure here in Sweden have been good after the race as none really have thought I would be able to come back to the top of the sport when I got so badly fatigued and sick. Now I’m just enjoying some easy weeks before I will get into a training routine for an adventure race in China in the end of September with a Swedish team, will be a lot of fun. After that race I will probably take an end of the season break before I start my training for next year and my international Ironman comeback.
If you want to see full results with lap splits see this link http://apps.svensktriathlon.org/competitionresults.asp?type=details&competition_id=271&language=1 but here are the top 5 results.
Swim Bike Run Total
1.Clas Björling 1.01.13 4.34.02 2.47.40 8.26.24
2.Ted Ås 55.57 4.26.07 3.04.01 8.28.40
3.Kristian Hallsten 1.06.11 4.31.48 3.03.17 8.44.06
4.David Näsvik 59.51 4.32.36 3.13.34 8.48.32
5.Antti Antonov 58.55 4.48.53 2.58.03 8.48.47
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