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Edito Ok, let’s begin with the greetings... Health, sports, family, love, AND... Good resolutions! I can already guess yours... Eat less, drink less, follow your training plans from A to Z... Not very funny but when we are motivated, as soon as the calendar comes out, we can rapidly imagine that things are going to change and that the season will be excellent ! From our side, this is not good resolutions that we have taken but firm commitments dictated by your warm and encouraging reactions. First of all, we will keep our PDF version of Tri- maX-hebdo, but additionally it will be translated in English, yes, this is true! Then we are envisaging interviews, equipment tests, reports, pictures, some heavy stuff as you can see, and we will try to respond to all your questionings and to make you travel as much as possible! Cover’s picture : Tyler Butterfield Copyright : [email protected] So let’s begin smoothly with the first spot... (And the 125th of the series!) in summary, we’ve met Tyler Butterfield and stroke up a conversation with him, ;-) A small report of actuality about fundamental endurance in swimming, and to finish up, the intro- duction of the new Cervélo P2 ... Just in case you would feel like having a new and quite affordable equipment! Ah... For that, health, happiness and love are not up to par... So also a lot of dough, dosh and hefty sum for 2014! The team copyright TrimaX-hebdo Our FACEBOOK STAY CONNECTED @trimaxhebdo TRIhebdo 3 N°125 THETRIhebdo SUMMARY P6 SPOTLIGHT The Belman is getting famous P26 TRAINING High endurance swimming P33 MATERIAL Discover the new Cervelo P2 P11 MEETING With Tyler Butterfield P20 PRESENTATION Team Uplace-BMC pro triathlon team www.trimaxhebdo.com TRIhebdo 5 SPOTLIGHT Full distance 3.8 - 180 - 42 AUG 30-31 Half distance 1.9 - 90 - 21 The BELMAN is getting famous Our goal : organizing a sports event with some strong values TrimaX-hebdo : How was born the idea of organi- zing the Belman? TrimaX-hebdo : How did the first edition go? In the family of the «man», we have the Ironman, ExtremeMan, Chtriman... In Belgium, this Arnaud : The Belman was born 3 years ago... It Arnaud : : Organizing is our job, partners, spon- is the Belman which is trying to emerge among long distance races. And the bet is about came from a meeting between the event commu- sors and above all media trusted us very quickly in to succeed with an organization which has no cause to be envious of its «older sisters»... nication (our 20-year-company) and the passion order to make it a key event in Belgium. At once, and admiration that I had for triathletes. everybody was willing to help us to build this first Encounter with one of the organizers, Arnaud... Goal : organizing a sports event with some strong edition. We deployed some strong means so that values. Resistance, self-surpassing, willpower, ver- our athletes were «UltraVip» during the whole satility, balance, emotion, are synonymous with weekend and that they could challenge themsel- triathlon and TRIATHLETES lifestyle! ves in the best conditions! The Federation gave us ever since the first edition and for many years to Words noted down by Jacvan, pictures organization TrimaX-hebdo : Where does the name Belman come the title of FULL DISTANCE NATIONAL come from ? BELGIUM CHAMPIONSHIPS! Arnaud : This is a nice mix between Belgique/Bel- Frederik Van Lierde also supported us in order to gie/Belgium and the worldwide known «Man» cir- propel us at the very forefront... cuit! 6 TRIhebdo TRIhebdo 7 SPOTLIGHT TrimaX-hebdo : What is the profile of the race ? Arnaud : We visited every part of belgium... Once we arrived in RobertVille, the deci- sion was made «IT’S GONNA BE HERE». Concerning the city of Waimes (Robert- Ville), people are wonderful and very kind (for an organizer, it’s precious!). Concer- ning the place where the Belman is sett- led... Only the pictures could describe what we feel there. The swim course gives a wink to Challenge Roth with its wonderful gate under which athletes are going. The bike course gives a wink to Long Distance Abu Dhabi Triath- lon with its wonderful F1 circuit, as here we go through the most beautiful F1 cir- cuit in the world : Spa Francorchamps! To have a beautiful finish, the run course sim- ply takes place at the heart of our Belgium Ardennes! TrimaX-hebdo : How many athletes will We work year after year for the evolution of the you be able to welcome ? Belman... Don’t we say that it’s better not to start too fast... :)? Arnaud : For its first edition, we had stopped the registrations up to 150 athletes in order to «mas- Then the appointment is made this year for Au- ter» the race properly. For its second edition, we gust 30th and 31st. double the registrations. 8 TRIhebdo MEETING TYLERButterfield ‘‘ I quickly realized I was a big fish in a small pound” ,, Tyler Butterfield has certainly been one of the revelation of 2013 in the Long Distance field after fini- shing 3rd in Abu Dhabi International Triathlon but above all 7th in the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. After succeeding in cycling, two selections for the Olympic Games, Tyler represents his country Bermuda with pride in long distance triathlon. Not surprising when we know that sports is a life style for the Butterfields’! By JACVAN, photos @Jacvan / @Lava_magazine / @Butterfield 5 TRIhebdo TRIhebdo 11 TrimaX-hebdo : You finished 7th this year in the So hopefully I can improve this again. We will see. world championship in Hawaii, a lot of people were :) surprised by your performance... Did you forebode that you could finish at this position ? What was TrimaX-hebdo : When did you begin triathlon ? your goal before the start ? Was it your first sport or did you practice another one before ? Tyler Butterfield : My aim was 100% to make it in the top 10. Tyler Butterfield : My older brother and parent did They prize money only goes to top 10, so that triathlon. My dad was 7th in Kona in 1981 (and run should really be every pro’s goal or better. You have record). My mom’s pb for a marathon is 2:38 in the to believe you 1st US Wo- can get top 10 men’s Olym- on a good day pic trails or it is hard to (mother is justify doing American) Kona. and my Dad It is very ex- also went to pensive to the Munich travel down 72 Olympics and qualify for Bermuda for Kona. So in Rowing the return has (single to be there. I skull). prepared well So my fa- for Kona and mily is very knew I was on athletic and good form. when I was growing up A lot of people wera surprised by the performance of Tyler, 7th in Kona, thanks I place 9th my family all to a good cycling. in Vegas 70.3 did Triath- Worlds and I lon, swimmi- had not been ng, biking or doing 70.3 training only Ironman training for running races. Kona. So I knew I was on the right track and had 5 weeks Growing up in Bermuda, I was able to do all the more training from Vegas to Kona and a bit of sports individually and Triathlon too. weight to lose. So I was confident on a good day I My brother is actually the most talented in the could get top ten. family having all the records for his age. I might However I would not have guessed that I would be win a race, but I could never beat his times and as high as 4th till 2.5 miles left in the race. So that records! He is a year and 1/2 older. So I learnt ear- was a bit of surprise, but then I didn’t like getting ly I was not the best but I could still win a race passed on the end of a run. I am normally passing or two. I thank my brother for teaching me early people on the run. that there are many talent people in the world, you But in 2013 I worked a lot on my bike and my run have to want it and work hard to succeed too. He was not up to par. was older and a bit of a ladies & party boy, so sport took second place. Now he is happy, with a family and running the fa- ‘‘ My dad was 7th in Kona mily business in Bermuda. We still go for easy runs in 1981 with the run re- together, and now I am a lot fitter, but on the track cord ,, he can beat me in anything under 600 meters. Last year we raced a 400 and he ran 56seconds in lane TRIhebdo 13 MEETING 2 as I pushed him out of lane 1. ;) I did also play a little bit of Football when I was young. But I was just average and soon released I was a lot better at running and biking. TrimaX-hebdo : Sports is a family story, could you tell us about your wife Nikki ? Tyler Butterfield : Nikki my wife, just like my bro- ther is the real talent in the family. He won ITU Under23 Worlds in 2003 in Queenstown NZ, when to cycling and got 15th in ‘‘ I have heard great UCI Road World Cycling Championships after things about Ironman being in the breakaway all day still hung in for a Nikki et Tyler in international triathlon of Abu Dhabi bunch sprint after being disappointed she could en 2013.