CADEX - IMPOSSIBLY FAST | Road to #Sub7

it was a massive here last year it's the best like i almost could have imagined you can always kind of be safe and just stay within a comfort zone but we're always trying to push the boundaries take the risk and go all in [Applause] you take the olympic gold so what about now all the limitations we've surrounded us with we just have to break away [Music] how fast can we really go it's a very simple lifestyle being on training camps swim bike run just repeating what i've been doing but that's also what i dreamed about when i was a kid i remember first time going to las plaitas in spain for a week their training camp i was just training three days three sessions per day and laying there in the bad mid middle of the session and just thinking just imagine if i could just do this for rest of my life yeah bon appetit two of everything yeah it's going to be a double hard day i was a swimmer and i was maybe known for training really really well and kind of pushing really hard but i was just not getting the results in the pool as i was expecting one is really unaccurate if if you wonder if you want to lose all your confidence just step on it it doesn't work they say there's something wrong with it so i chose a little bit too much decided to give a local triathlon a try i won that one and then a few months later we started out with the youth national team in norway so at the moment it's end of january i've been here in sierra nevada for nearly two weeks i have four weeks to go uh this is a place uh it's up in the mountains two thousand three hundred meters of altitude so we're here to kind of improve the blood cells like getting more hemoglobin so when i get back down to sea level i would be kind of 10 50 better because of the extra amount of hemoglobin i have in the body what it takes to achieve in triathlon is the willingness to do all the hours my biggest skills is that the kind of the amount of work i can do over a longer period of time both in a single day like we have when you do an arma distance seven hours age of racing and being on the camp for five six seven weeks the kind of skills to recover between the sessions and also doing writing sessions on the session to be able to have a really consistent training period over a month good it's uh months until saint george now it's measuring me a little bit too late so it's probably low oh no it's not too late it's never too late it's too late to apologize it's too late one of the things that i really enjoyed with christian was that he was extremely dedicated i think that was what really fascinated me christian has is extremely or mentally strong and that allows him to dig much deeper than what you would normally jose expect we have a scientific approach and that's helping obviously me as nestle to believe in the program but it also i think makes it easier to yeah get as close as we possibly can to human performance from after rio was the time basically where i started to work with christian saw the biggest gap that we needed to close first which basically actually was intensity control they were going way too hard most of the time in their in their sessions and the problem is that the body adapts to it and then we basically started to bring down the speed change a little bit on the workouts and these kind of things and from there and six months later they basically had an improvement of in averaging the group of approximately 19 at race pace power the olympics has been my big dream for yeah 10 years plus it's uh it was only gold or nothing i really needed that uh gold medal so it's more like checking off the box kind of good to come into like a new system with different kind of uh goals we have still a lot of areas where i think i can get stronger and more race fit for the next one you take the olympic gold so what what now because it's not about the olympic gold that's more like a reward on on the way while we just look at okay how fast can we go can we break some limit can we learn something new that basically nobody ever thought was possible before all the limitations we basically how they surround us with we just have to break away and see can we approach this in a different way generation redefines impossible three minutes time 59.47 sports have impossible targets and over the iron distance breaking seven hours for the men or for eight hours having the sub seven which is kind of a very unique opportunity to be a part of sub seven as a concept or having a target of just saying okay how fast can we go that's something that is much more exciting 3.8k swimming 180k by finishing off with a marathon the unique thing here is that it's not just you and yourself it's me i get and my team with 10 faces against george keeper and his team with 10 pacers the ultimate aim for most people trying to do like the first iron man they probably want to break 14 hours so we're trying to cut this in half the huge part of the race actually is not about christian it's about the pacers he can swim like 45 minutes to 47 bike element of it we've got to go so quick 52 kilometers an hour averaging as a team like 400 watts i think it's going to come down to nearly almost everything on the run we'll see as a run split in in an ironman that have never before been done i think everything cool involves a bit of a risk yeah we're not in the sport to be like safe we're here to really push the limits it's all about getting the uh the margin on our side the kbx as a brand started back in the late 80s as as what we called a moon shot we introduced the first mass production carbon frames kdx is kind of about where only the best is good enough we started working with christian as he started targeting sub seven we really wanted to get more involved and what we could do to help him achieve that we started working from scratch and just making the fastest bike possible after four uh triathlon when we started developing a product the primary goal of that product is how can we enhance the athletes performance there's a lot of talk about aerodynamics but when you get into an event like a triathlon a full ironman these guys aren't doing one hour time trials they're doing you know three hours on the bike you have some bikes out of the box aerodynamic wise they are great but if you make them race ready you need to add some drinking systems suddenly they lose 10 5 10 or even more watts just by adding the bottles we looked at how we can redesign the bike to get endurance aerodynamics and then on top of that when it comes to aerodynamics historically our industry has always looked at how we move air around the rider we're lucky enough to have an aerodynamicist who has come from the f1 field he realizes that moving air through the rider also helps make the bike faster so now we are in france first time i get to meet the pacers the team yeah we have kind of some days on the track where we can really work on the position kind of playing around with the how we were riding in the group not necessarily just like one by one lane but if we can find some different formation that we can use in the race and also kind of getting the numbers so the people behind the scene can do the calculation and try to find out how we can do it next time we meet you managing okay christian yeah it's not too hard [Music] i think what really probably shocked people was when we came to cozumel not only did we win but we also took the outright jose iron distance record in in the debut people were giving me almost as much credit for the cozumel race as i got for winning olympics this i think truly shocked the world much more than what actually had happened before because it was so extraordinary compared to the performance that people expected to have in an iron man and he did it on his debut the biggest risk for me and kind of for the team it's more like trying to do it again trying to replicate environment distance within four weeks i think george is a completely different uh project than than than for example sub 7. unfortunately they come very very close so we need to prioritize one or the two putting all these things together is uh one of the key elements to to really be able to individualize and extract the most from every athlete this boils down to a little bit that okay if we say that this guy now in the front there he's pushing hundred percent yeah and he's def that's the one that defines the speed the speed of the group yeah all the time how much energy by how your experience do you save in the second position one thing is this paper but what is your experience i think it's probably like we're still probably only like if still you're like you're losing like 20 watts so that means that basically during this pool you still see a high number for the first for the for the 10 minutes that you are hosting in in the in the front this means that if we even now say that this is also you stay there for five minutes you stay here for five minutes just to make again just to make it very simple if you just pull this number that means basically that you see uh 420 watts average yeah for 10 minutes yeah and then we basically see for the next 20 minutes 200 and the opposite way 270 volts builds it up yeah so it means basically you're gonna do seven intervals with 400 let's say 420 watts it boils down to how do we bring up the speed the average speed of the group that's the my major concern into the saint george race we traveled three weeks early i like the whole first week where i was sick so then i was like thinking okay i have airplane tickets back home after the race if i hadn't booked them before i would probably just have left before the race i felt so [ __ ] and so unprepared like normally you never want to have a dns so you always want to finish the race but uh i was actually standing there on staff and thinking that i'm now here and it's okay to get a dnf like i'm just taking like my ticket in the lottery and hoping that i have a good day and that my body will respond i was as i was like puking up on the start line i felt so [ __ ] [Music] standing there on the southland so weak and i thought okay i'll just do the swim and then after 60k on the bike i will literally either go hard or go home because then we passed where we had the airbnb [Applause] and starting the run i thought okay i'm still in sixth position in the world championship some guys up front will probably feel off so it's a podium it's something i'm happy with so i did i didn't race for the win at this stage but more just to collect apples if the guys was falling down i think it was after 10 15k that was starting out here maybe maybe i can actually take the wind [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it's time for an interview what does it mean what's this guy what's this guy get him out media yeah christian likes to get involved with many jobs on the team was it yeah i think that for me first of all of course you you had a very clear goal you wanted to be the first in history to both win the olympics and long course world championship ironman world championship but of course and the world series exactly you're also on the road there you took the world series as well but i also wanted a 17.3 but so three out of four it's good and and you got both the the 70.3 record and you got the 140.6 record or actually ironman records as well so i think i think that that's something that of course you can we can't ask for anything more than that but it's not just the results like a few years ago people maybe laughing a little bit about the way we're working going too much into the details uh not performing as we were talking like we couldn't talk we didn't do the walk to now certainly be in a position where people try to copy what we do and really try to dig in and understand how we're working and it's not just one or two athletes but it's the whole team and uh that's yeah and actually for the greater good of not only our performance but actually maybe even hopefully humanity almost two years of uh build up and or in the planning and uh it's good to sort of feel so ready as we do the the team is really looking sharp a lot of the guys you know like they want to just do like the fastest bike split i said to them like you're not the important part of this it's how do we deliver christian to the uh you know the fastest time overall and we win as a team i i am obsessing over details but one thing i feel really confident about is the work that you have been doing i know from all the dialogue that i've had with matt with bob and the rest of you that the job is done so i'm i'm confident i'm super chill you're making the job of my life very easy so i'm here actually just to see that [Applause] you just count the medals and you feel like that's the important thing i don't think it would have been worth it it's important to also enjoy the journey and this is the lifestyle i was kind of dreaming about as a junior at i think working this way you also need athletes that are equally dedicated and equally crazy and equally driven to just almost yeah sacrifice everything to just be the best to attempt to be the first man to break seven hours the girl went off felt lost was swimming or was swimming smooth and i was able to be in a good rhythm see a huge gap between christian blue midfield with his swim pacemaker seven-time dutch national champion las vetelier he has completed that 3.8k swim he's got a massive gap i remember running out of the water on the beach and up the stairs i felt like oh the quads is already tired just from the swim but let's see how it goes on the bike really cool to start riding with the six of us in the beginning won't be long until these two come together now under a minute uh from joe who was four and a half minutes down uh after the swim like halfway through of 90 to 100k i was just thinking that this is tough okay maybe i'm this is a day where 3 30 is enough out of the way they deliver the world champion the world record holder the olympic champion a man who has done what no athletes in this sport have ever done in the last 12 months and off we go selling into good rhythm not sure when we caught him but yeah from there on we have to put the hammer in now and just make sure that we always increase the gap to make it up to two or three minutes christian blumenthal remains in control i felt it there the last six k i've never been arranged like this in the sport there's been athletes that have progressed up and got better with age and and moved up but never an athlete that's been able to switch and change between race distances yes he's got an engine that you'd seldom see christian blumenfeld in his third ever long or full distance race the first one was the world record the second one was the world title and if there's any doubt left in anyone's minds about this man potentially being the future goat put it to bed now 6 44 yeah what are they what a team and to come into the finish line and see everyone there kind of see how engaged they were sharing on yeah the team spirit there was yeah very special i'm proud of what the whole team has done more than what i have done how do you achieve the impossible this is how you

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Published: Tue Sep 27 2022