About my training

I’ve put up my training schedules up here a couple of times, but I stopped doing that. A lot of you have asked me why. Well, actually, it’s a matter of respect towards my trainer. He’s putting in a lot of effort to write tailor-made schedules and it wasn’t very respectful of me to just put them up for grabs, I thought. So I’m not doing that anymore. But anyone of you who has a specific question about my training, my work-outs, my gear, the amount of time I put into each seperate sport, they can send me a mail and I’ll be glad to respond with a personal and detailed anwser. A typical training week for me totals between 17 and 20 hours. In general I’d spend about 4 or 5 of those in the pool and the rest on the bike or running. I do one big brick a week and the rest is mostly Long Slow Distance.  You all know that quite a few things went wrong during my preparation: the crashes, pneumonia, … As a results, we have been doing mostly endurance and LSD work, up until now. I started doing speedwork last week (6x1000 meters). And it felt  really good. The empahsis that my trainer puts on bike-to-run transitions is also staring to pay off. I’m regaining my strength and slowly building up peak condition. After IM Zürich, Filippe and I have about 9 weeks to peak towards Barcelona with a half-distance test in Gerardmer at the beginning of september.   I also started working with osteopath and kine Sasha Becquart (Dennis Rodman, George Hincapie, …) again to work on my back problems. Once we get those out of the way, a 40+ K/hour Ironman bike ride should come into view.