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• 22-07-10 Zürich is massive!! You really can't imagine the size of this event. It is HUGE! Larger than life. Hundreds of stands in the expo village. You just get lost there, right now. Scott brought a road truck big enough to stash a U2 concert stage in, the Ironman Shop is about as big as a football field, and 2.500 volunteers are swarming out all over the place. I thoroughly enjoyed the press conference and the interviews afterwards. Got to mentio TRIWWW three or four times and got some good reactions to that. Tomorrow we'll check the local newspapers. I sure hope TRIWWW gets mentioned.  And after the race, I hope to do an interview with Matthias Hechtel. I hope he wins. (But actually, they were all so incredible nice and friendly).  My bike got delivered, by the way. Half-trashed, wheels total loss, shoes and box completely torn. Bring me the head of somebody at Lufthansa. Or Austrian.
• 22-07-10 A nice morning with team Commerzbank The press conference was a blast. Got a good Jean-Marie Pfaff joke across. Sitting in between Karin Thurig, Matthias Hecht, Ronnie Schildknecht and Stefan Riesen, I felt like Bob the Builder sitting amongst Batman, Supergirl, Spiderman and the Hulk at a press conference for superheroes. Lots more on chatting with the stars later. Bike is still missing. Ulrike from Team Commerzbank offered some help and so did Matthias Hecht. Incredible, isn't it?
• 21-07-10 Get outta here! Long and hard travel day. More than 7 hours en route from Brussels to Zürich. Got a good hotel, a great bed and a cuddly mascotte, now. Unfortunately, my bike is missing. Somebody at Lufthansa or Austrian Airlines seems to have misplaced it. No bike course reco today and no training tomorrow. I'm starting to get disturbingly zen about these things ...
• 19-07-10 Very Scary This is very scary. I'm only just returning to form, my best times are scheduled for October and yet, at the Zürich press conference I will be sitting in between superstars like Ronnie Schildknecht, Stefan Riesen, Matthias Hecht and Romain Guilaume ... "Mit grossen Ambitione ist auch Peter Lissens, ein Alterskategorienathlet nach Zürich angereist. In einen Selbstexperiment namens Project Superman untersucht er, inwieweit ein Athlet einer Alterskategorie mit professioneller Unterstützung von Sponsoren und Trainem mit seiner Performance and die Leistungen der Profiathleten anknüpfen kan. Wie zich das Training von Amateuren zu Profis unterscheidet, wird Peter Lissens im Gespräch an der Pressekonferenz verdeutlichen" ...
• 14-07-10 About my training I’ve put up my training schedules up here a couple of times, but I stopped doing that. A lot of you have asked me why. Well, actually, it’s a matter of respect towards my trainer. He’s putting in a lot of effort to write tailor-made schedules and it wasn’t very respectful of me to just put them up for grabs, I thought. So I’m not doing that anymore. But anyone of you who has a specific question about my training, my work-outs, my gear, the amount of time I put into each seperate sport, they can send me a mail and I’ll be glad to respond with a personal and detailed anwser. A typical training week for me totals between 17 and 20 hours. In general I’d spend about 4 or 5 of those in the pool and the rest on the bike or running. I do one big brick a week and the rest is mostly Long Slow Distance.  You all know that quite a few things went wrong during my preparation: the crashes, pneumonia, … As a results, we have been doing mostly endurance and LSD work, up until now. I started doing speedwork last week (6x1000 meters). And it felt  really good. The empahsis that my trainer puts on bike-to-run transitions is also staring to pay off. I’m regaining my strength and slowly building up peak condition. After IM Zürich, Filippe and I have about 9 weeks to peak towards Barcelona with a half-distance test in Gerardmer at the beginning of september.   I also started working with osteopath and kine Sasha Becquart (Dennis Rodman, George Hincapie, …) again to work on my back problems. Once we get those out of the way, a 40+ K/hour Ironman bike ride should come into view.
• 12-07-10 Getting (much!) better The so called Project Superman hasn’t been a walk in the park, so far, as you are all aware. Over the last six weeks there hasn’t been one single day that I thought I would even come close to any of my goals by the end of the season. Ut last week has been a turning point. It has taken a while, but I can feel that I am, at last, getting stronger again. I also feel that I have tremendous margin left. Sure, the swim will always problem for me. But after IM Zürich, we have 9 weeks to make up for lost time and to work on resistance , strength and speed rather than just endurance. That will be a blast. And hopefully put me on the way to do a ‘Jalabert’ in Barcelona.   

"In my opinion, most triathletes still train their swimming according to principles and techniques that passed their expiry date 40 years ago ..."

Andrei Ichoutov - Elite Swim Coach