Pepe Saborido returns to Feedyourdreams to give us his vision about the season in the Ironman franchise and his forecasts for the World Championship
The last seasons of the Ironman circuit made it clear that To win in Hawaii, decompensations could no longer be produced in the three segments. Hawaii, it was already for people with good swimming, a great bike and a very good career. The times of the decompensations to the Norman Stadler had already passed to better life and now if you wanted to be on the circuit and have options on the island You must be a balanced triathlete in the three segments, that is, Craig Alexander.
We saw as throughout 2014 that people like Lierde, Kienle, Nills frommhold, Iván, swam in front, kienle within the +- assumable, marked partial between 4h 15 m and 4h 20m and then on foot 2h 50 m was already the maximum allowed to have options. Thus, the season ended The theme seemed controlled and 2015 was presented at the fan level with clear premises.
With controlled theme we have everything perfectly uncontrolled
Reason? New jump of physical and mental quality. Swimming in reference tests is being of all type in Indian row and give everything ; But the great jump has produced again In the bike sector. Times such as Frodeno and Kienle in Frankfurt or Marino in Austria, different races and different temperatures of course, make him a twist, completed in time In 5 minutes less, regarding dream marks that made us all ask ourselves, What was to nail 4h 15 by bike? To rub the eyes and see Frodeno (4h 8m 43s), Kienle (4h 11 m 07 S), Marino (4h 11m 47s) and 7 of the top 10 of the Frankfurt General below 4h 19 m.
I have Eneko plugged in Frankfurt plugged in the last 30 km as one of those moments that are not forgotten but I have to admit that the last 30km of Frodeno in the same competition will not forget either.
In the absence of seeing Nills and some more this weekend in Roth, I am clear that I have everything perfectly uncontrolled for Hawaii 2015. I know "perfectly", to follow the thread of the phrase, what happens in the circuit. Raising at 6:00 in the morning and following an Ironman is something that has become a passion for me, The pros are part of the family, the usual tool calculator, to forecast is a luck that gives it an incentive, see the exit of swimming with a very hot coffee and if we add to that we add the "SMS" of the "wives" of friends worried about their kilometer steps first, their positions and times later, They make a lot of hours pass very fast.
Departure gun and the one that may follow me
The "lack of control" comes because at older the times I observe a "mental trend" that makes the Iron resemble many races that I have seen Javi Gómez Noya in short, departure gun and the one that may follow me, and for this in long Mental strength, a capacity for suffering and a Knowledge of oneself that at least from the outside had not observed in the magnitude of this moment.
We will see what happens in Hawaii but if the mentality is the one that has been seen, it will not look back, The first 30 km of bike will not be those of a long distance test but those of a cycling counter And then, you have no doubt, you will not loosen when they get off the tree. That said, a Hawaii is expected with everything about the mat and that I do not dare to forecast anything because the staff is assuming many risks and the island is the island!
Greetings to all, next stop "from the Marathón to the Marathón and Ironman record to the Ironman's record."