Escaping from cold weather, another year, Ruth and me will be in Lanzarote Island during the winter. Like I'm spending a lot of time training, I don’t have so much time to update my webpage because the only thing I want to do is… rest!! That’s why I would like to apologize if you have visited my blog looking for some news.
Photo: Jacky Everaerdt
The last few weeks I feel in a good form, recently I’m thinking of doing base training, a lot of hours and kilometers at easy pace, in order to obtain a good aerobic base to later add more quality and intense training. Fortunately, here in Club La Santa, there are always nice people to train with, as for instance in swimming, Ainhoa Murua and Jon Unanue, both are here searching for good weather and conditions, as well, Ainhoa is preparing to participate to London Olympics Games. Cycling we are a good group with Victor del Corral, Nicholas Ward, Jon, Ainhoa, Ruth, Azucena, Mark, Thomas... and any person who will come around the Club La Santa will be welcomed to join us to do some kilometers. For running, most of the time I’m going alone but as I’m getting more and more in shape, I will join Jon and Ainhoa in some intervals and I hope to be able to run with Victor and others athletes and triathletes that will come around.
Cycling up to Mirador de Haría with Jon Unanue and Victor del Corral
What is the objective of making all this? I’ve been a couple of weeks thinking about the competition plan and now, big events are clear:
- 3rd of March Abu Dhabi International Triathlon. - 25th of March Ironman Asia-Pacific Championship, Melbourne. - 29th of July ITU Long Distance World Championship, Vitoria-Gasteiz. -13th of October. Ironman World Championship, Kona (Hawaii). -28th of October. Xterra World Championship, Maui (Hawaii).
We have some weeks left to stay in Lanzarote, hard weeks of training. I promise you to dedicate more time to update my blog periodically. Be aware, there will be news shortly!
After the presentation of the short film "One Day in Eneko's Life" in Vitoria-Gasteiz and in Zarautz we decided that it was time for the film to be free and start to fly in the www. This is our Christmas present for all of you, we sincerely hope that you like it and you enjoy it.
Merry Christmas!!
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After the disappointment in Kona it feels great to be racing and competing again, I got a podium at Xterra World Championships that is huge for me. I enjoyed the race, the suffering, the fight with other triathletes... XTERRA has given a lot to me always. Big mahalo!!
And thanks for all your messages and good wishes, I really appreciate it very very much!!
By this time you will already know that I DNF at Ironman World Championships in Kona. I had the same stomach problems that I suffered in Abu Dhabi at the beggining of the year, this time the problems showed up on the bike and made it impossible to me to finish the race. I did a good swim and I was in the leading pack for the first part of the 180 kilometer bike ride, taking the turn towards Hawi I felt strong and decided to push the pace and try to get away from the pack. From there all went wrong, I suffered a lot in the climb to Hawi, my power was gone and my stomach started to bloat. I decided to take it easy, ride at an easier pace and try to recover. That didn´t happen, my problems were getting worse and I was suffering from abdominal pain. I rode back to Kona as I could and when I left the bike in T2 I didn´t have the pshysical and mental strength to run a marathon.
I'm feeling better now and looking forward to the future. This of course!! is not the end of the world, I have to learn from the mistakes done and get the positive things from saturday's experience. The most important thing for me has been the support of all the people that follows me, it made me feel much better during this last days, so thank you for all the support messages, and thank you for been there.
Xterra Worlds in Maui are next week, that´s my next race. More will come after Xterra because I don´t want to end up the season this way, I'm in a very good shape and I want to show that to myself. I also want to get some points for the Kona Pro Ranking and come here next year stronger and more motivated. Mahalo to everybody!!
Thanks to everybody for the support messages that you have sent me by email, Facebook, Twitter... It has been impossible to answer to all of you one by one. You all are part of the energy that pushes me in the Queen K. Aloha!!
