Team Tissink Training Camps for 2018
Team Tissink will be hosting 2 training camps in 2018: IMSA TRAINING CAMP: 8-11th March 2018 This camp will be predominantly focused on preparation for IMSA , but 70.3 athletes are welcome to join as well. We will have various assistant coaches helping out, so athletes of all levels are welcome, from professionals to first -timers. 70.3 WORLD CHAMPS CAMP: 26-29th July 2018 This camp will focused on preparing athletes for the World...
Pieter Du Preez – Race report UCI Paracycling World Champs and Berlin Marathon
It has been a fairly quiet racing year since the arrival of our son, Pietman end of April for obvious reasons. This also meant quite a lot of interesting new challenges and adaptions in our lives vs the usual rhythm for training. However, I think we came out adapting well in the end and not losing focus on what would be a very important Paracycling World Champs end of August as it was a first Paracycling World Champs hosted in SA. To...
Pula 70.3 2017 Race Report – by Thomas Shaw
I arrived in Pula on the Thursday before the race, the race was not really in my plan until a work commitment in Croatia was confirmed towards the end of July. I’d been training consistently since Durban and IMSA before that, but once the race was confirmed, the training program got stepped up. Training had been going really well up in the build up to Pula, FTP tests, 5k trials, and even the 1,500m swim wetsuit swims all indicated...
Race Report – Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote by Annah Watkinson
Coming off a podium finish at Ironman 70.3 Estonia, I was focused on replicating this at Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote this past weekend. In Estonia, I had a somewhat lack luster swim and bike leg but was incredibly pleased with clocking the fastest run of the day against some top runners on the professional circuit. The run felt effortless. For the bike leg, there wasn’t the usual power and on reflection, partly due to limited...
Annah Watkinson Race Report July – August 2017 Races
Challenge Prague Quote: “If you are going through hell…keep going” I have never thought of changing my dual life of both a professional career woman in investment banking and a pro tri-athlete. Sometimes, it does get tough balancing two very demanding parts of my life, but trips to race both in the Czech Republic and Estonia over the last 10 days makes it all worthwhile. I absolutely love doing what I am doing in...
Consistency Pays Off – by Thomas Switala
It started a year ago with a race to do the registration. Alarm set, I rushed from the client to my Nairobi hotel room with 5 minutes to spare to start of registration. It was apparently sold out within 13 minutes. My entry secured and happy and now the training starts. I still had Moolooba 70.3 WC to look forward to but the idea of doing another full distance started forming the base for next year. The training from the Tissink Team...
