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Triathlon-Camps.com - Spain
3rd Canadian-German Training Camp
in Mallorca (Spain)
April 11-25, 2009
Hosted by BALEAR REISEN GmbH
Coached by Kevin and Kate Masters from Aerobic Power Training Systems (Edmonton, Canada)
Join us for an early season training trip on our third annual Canadian-German Triathlon Camp on Mallorca, Spain. This Spanish island is an epic place to train, as the European professional cycling teams would agree: a stunning landscape, challenging switchbacks, smooth roads and a sunny spring climate offer the perfect conditions for your first outdoor bike rides of the season. Running along the Ocean, and swimming outdoors (either in the heated 25m pool or in the Ocean) will be just as exciting as the cycling. Getting in 5-6 rides per week of 70 to 160km, cycling is clearly the focus of the camp. Thus, the trip is aimed at both, triathletes and cyclists. We will have three different cycling groups to accommodate different levels of riding ability, all accompanied by bike guides and coaches. We are happy to offer you an unbeatable all-round package, that includes coached training sessions for the swim, the bike, and the run, your stay at the BlueBay Resort, including breakfast and dinner buffet, plus training tips and presentations. And, we make sure the social aspect won’t fall short, meeting most nights at the hotel bar to enjoy a drink with everybody.
Camp goals and content:
The camp’s focus is on the bike workouts, because you will hardly find a better place on earth to cycle than Mallorca. Offering a great mix of fast flats and challenging serpentines, combined with perfect road conditions, little traffic before May, a beautiful scenery and usually sunshine, it’s no wonder that this BALEAR Reisen GmbH island has become a true cycling Mecca and attracts European professional cycling teams.
Don’t worry though! There will be plenty of swimming, running and even the necessary core training and will be just as much fun to do outside in the sun. After a full day of actual training and a satisfying and relaxing buffet-style dinner at the hotel you have the opportunity to join the interesting evening presentations about relevant aspects of training (e.g. technique, training efficiency, racing). All week, the dedicated coaches will be available for further training-specific questions. Be prepared to get lots of tips during the workouts as well.
Enjoy the group; meet fellow athletes and exchange triathlon experiences or simply enjoy a beautiful sunny night at the hotel bar.
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 00:00 |
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Train in Spain - round #3 for the Canadian Camp
The last two weeks in Spain have been so much fun, that most of us didn’t want to leave our little “Train in Spain”-Camp, shortly forgetting about the sour legs, and hurting bums. However, reality got us back….for sure, when landing right in a snow storm back in Edmonton (and I thought for a moment that I am looking at the clouds in front of my little airplane window, haha).
Sure as well though is that 1370km more on the bike-account feels great - more so in the head than in the legs right now, but after a couple days of recovery and some easy riding, I’m sure the legs will agree with my mind. Mallorca is just fabulous for cycling. Every year I enjoy the beautiful landscape (unless I am trying to hang on to “the locomotive”, Swen Sundberg, then I am just staring at his wheel…fun, fun). This year our group had one opportunity to go ride with Swen, and 6 of us took him up on it. While we were just thinking that we might be the fastest “train” of cyclists out there, a super-powered tandem just blow right past us. That was the funniest thing ever, considering that we went with more than 40km/hr at the time! Can you believe that? Still makes me smile! Would have loved to see Swen’s face when that happened.
There was also more running and swimming then in previous years – a) because I want to do more this year and b) because I really have to, considering that my first IM race is only 9 weeks out!
Overall, the camp was a total success – both, from an organizer’s point of view as well as when looking at my own training. We had such a fun group, some crazy strong riders (see this video as a proof ;-)!, good training conditions, better food than in previous years, some cliff-diving action, and lots of laughs about “chips and shit”, “the Manchester Menace”, and much more…Come next year and find out yourself ;-)!
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