FAMILIA 3B 1° TRICICULO
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#OGEROCKS - A Sky Full Of Stars
Enjoy our tribute to Coldplay with our version of their song 'A Sky Full of Stars' shot on location in Girona, Spain.
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MT Mayon tri
2014 COURSE RECORDS
Elite Mens
1st Place – Benjamin Rana 2:07:08
2nd Place -Mark Anthony Hosana 2:07:23
3rd Place – Joseph Miller 2:12:12
Elite Womens
1st Place – Monica Torres 2:20:30
2nd Place – Kim Kilgroe 2:20:52
3rd Place – Maria Hodges 2:26:10
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The sport we all love is made up of the great people who practice it. Take for example, Sister Madonna Buder (the Iron Nun) who recently won gold in the 80-84 age category at the ITU World Triathlon Championships in Edmonton in a time of 4 hours and 19 minutes.
She did her first #triathlon at the age of 52 and holds the record as the oldest woman to ever complete an Ironman distance triathlon. This is a sport with no age limit!
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RUN DOWNHILL LIKE KILIAN JORNET
Want to descend mountains with the speed and finesse of Kilian Jornet? Follow his downhill running tips here.
To watch Kilian Jornet charge down a mountain is to see something that is almost beyond possible. Like a squirrel down a tree, his downhill running seems to defy the laws of gravity. How does he do it? Here, in his own words, Kilian explains:
Go to the mountain
For technique, for training, you need to spend hours in the mountain. You can go to the gym and get big quads but for the downhills, it doesn't work. You need to run downhills and downhills and downhills and then you learn the technique!
Close your eyes
It's not just about the legs and muscles, but more about the vision, about the anticipation of the trail, the obstacles. Like skiing, you need to pick your line. When you run fast you don’t see where to put your feet but you see the next four to five steps ahead and you need to know where your body and feet are on the ground. Close your eyes and run for 15 meters blind to try to remember the terrain. This is also good for balance.
Relax
The two main things in downhill are vision and the need to be relaxed. When we run downhill we tense all the muscles and this causes tiredness. If we run relaxed we can run faster and with less energy. For relaxation, practice descending like you’re dancing. For example, run down with your arms completely relaxed and every two steps do a little jump and kick your legs together.
Stretch
For running in the mountains the most important thing is to be flexible – to be able to adapt to every different situation. The perfect technique doesn’t exist for hill running! You need to be really elastic to adapt for all kinds of terrains.
Use an App
I use Total Ascent and Total Descent for counting the meters — I will do up to 700,000 a year — and Vertical Speed .
Don't think about the pain
When you run for long distances it’s impossible to avoid pain — it’s for everyone. When it comes you need to think of other things — the landscape, you talk with the racers, listen to music. I think about stories, like I’m a warrior being chased by an army. To not think about pain, you need to be in another world.
Don't forget the uphill!
For uphill it’s important to practise walking. A lot of people come from road running and as soon as it gets steep they don’t know how to walk. For walking it’s important to use all the body so the hands are pushing on the knees. This is a good exercise.
Kilian Jornet is a Suunto ambassador.
Born in a mountain hut in the Catalonian Pyrenees, Kilian Jornet is one of the world’s most remarkable and versatile mountain athletes.
STORY
Almost uniquely, Jornet dominates two sports -ski mountaineering in winter and trail running in summer. What is also remarkable about Jornet is that he is as equally accomplished across all distances, from short 1km vertical sprints, to mountain marathons to ultras up to 280km long.
Early 2014 Jornet was named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. He was among several explorers, climbers and adventure athletes shortlisted by the magazine for the prestigious honor, which is decided by public vote.
In 2012 Athletics Weekly argued that he was the ‘world’s best runner’, more impressive than Usain Bolt and Mo Farah. His list of wins is staggeringly impressive - see his website for a list of them - yet Jornet says that at heart, he is just a lover of the mountains. "I don't run for victory but to be in the mountains," he says.
"It's where I feel at home. When you are in the mountains, you feel that you are nothing and if you are nothing, you have everything to discover. I also love to race, to go fast and push myself - I am very competitive. But the day I stop winning, I'll still be in the mountains."
Besides trail running and ski-mountaineering Jornet is also an accomplished alpinist, with ambitions to set speed ascents on the highest mountains of Europe, the Americas, culminating with Mt Everest in 2015.
More info: http://www.summitsofmylife.com
NAME Kilian Jornet
SPORTS Trail running, ski mountaineering
HOME TOWN Chamonix, France
WEBSITE http://www.kilianjornet.cat/
MOVESCOUNT.COM PROFILE http://www.movescount.com/members/kilianjornet
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