Category Archives: Lanza 2014

The fourth running of our Lanzarote Endurance camp has just come to an end; with the day spent dropping our weary (and hungover!) campers at the airport for their flights home. It’s been a blast as always and we were … Continue reading →

Well, here we are already, the final day of camp. The schedule for the day is to ride the Ironman route ,and this tough 180k ride is classed as a points competition, in that the whole ironman route must be … Continue reading →

Thursday, the penultimate day on camp is always one of the toughest since by this point in the week with long training hours coupled with early morning wake up  calls, most people are beginning to feel tired – and then … Continue reading →

This morning we swam our new “point to point’’ route from Playa Chica around the small headland to the main beach and the Ironman start. It makes a nice change to do this, and some of us decided to swim … Continue reading →

The third day of camp starts with what has come to be known as The Swimmer’s Aquathlon – so called because the swim portion is disproportionately long compared to the run. This year the bias was even more pronounced due … Continue reading →

Our second swim training of the camp was focused around “starts and turns” – practice of race skills required for open water racing; beach entry, exit, mass starts and turning round a buoy in a group. We positioned our turn … Continue reading →

As  it will be for the next 6 days, the first order of the day on camp is a seas swim. Having been drilled on the importance of punctuality throughout this busy week during last night’s camp intro  and  welcome … Continue reading →

We had a lovely start to the day, greeted by relatively still air and calm sea, Steven and I wanted to recce a new swim route option – from the diving beach and around the headland to the large beach … Continue reading →