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ACHIEVE YOUR TRIATHLON AMBITIONS IN THIS OLYMPIC YEAR
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AIM HIGHER
PLUS PIRIFORMIS SYNDROME
HOW TO STOP A STITCH FIX FOOD TO FUEL YOUR BODY
SWIM THE PERFECT STROKE RATE BIKE INDOOR
CYCLING JUMP TO A FASTER RUNRUN
TO LOSE WEIGHT
WEEK PLAN 4 SA
IRON
GEAR GUIDE
SEE HOW KAREN SMYERS OVERCAME INCREDIBLE ODDS TO KEEP ON RACING AND WINNING
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WelcomeISSUE 24 / APRIL 2012
Subscribe todaySEE PAGE54
MEET THE QUEEN OF COMEBACKS
April 2012 R32.95
ISS
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RIL
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ACHIEVE YOUR TRIATHLON AMBITIONS IN THIS OLYMPIC YEAR
FOR GEAR NO.1
AIM HIGHER
PLUS PIRIFORMIS SYNDROME
HOW TO STOP A STITCH FIX FOOD TO FUEL YOUR BODY
SWIM THE PERFECT STROKE RATE BIKE INDOOR
CYCLING JUMP TO A FASTER RUNRUN
TO LOSE SIX POUNDS
WEEK PLAN 4 SA
IRON
GEAR GUIDE
SEE HOW KAREN SMYERS OVERCAME INCREDIBLE ODDS TO KEEP ON RACING AND WINNING
ON THE COVER Brad Kahlefeldt Elite Aussie Pro
Photography Delly Carr, triathlon.org
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PRESENTSPRESENTS
THIS IS YOURWORLD
GOOD THINGS COME ALONG IN PAIRS – THAT’S CERTAINLY TRUE FOR THESE TRI COUPLES
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TRIATHLETE COUPLES
LAURA AND GREG BENNETT, USABOTH STARTING the sport in the 1985-86 season,
the Bennetts have shown that triathlon can be the
basis of a long and happy relationship. “We are very
much a team. Our priority is to each other and our
relationship,” say Greg and Laura. “We decided
when we got together 11 years ago that we wanted to
experience life with one another. Our aim each year
is put a season of training and racing together that
will allow us both to experience as much as possible
as a couple. Triathlon, although a passion, is also our
business. We approach everything we do in the sport
as a business. We make our decisions together:
which events to race; where to locate ourselves for
training and racing; the sponsors we choose to work
with; when we will peak and when we rest or break.
The sport of triathlon has been an unbelievable tool
for us both to experience so much.”
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COMEBACKQUEEN
HOW THIS ICON OF OUR SPORT HAS OVERCOME INCREDIBLE ODDS TO KEEP ON RACING AND WINNING
WORDS Phil Mosley PORTRAITS Stanley Rowin
Smyers was an IT consultant working in Boston when her employers fell on hard times, forcing her to work part-time. She used this new opportunity to train and the following summer she finished fourth at the triathlon World Championships in Avignon, France. It was enough to make her leave the world of computing and seek a new career as an athlete: “After I’d quit my job I knew I could never work nine to five again. Triathlon was my escape route.”
The following year she competed in the World Championships again, this time clinching the gold medal. Her success
World Triathlon Champion and mother of two Karen Smyers is one of the most successful female triathletes of all time. Overwhelming determination and drive have led her to unbelievable success, which has included being inducted into
the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame. Her dramatic career began in 1990 when she left the world of IT to enter professional sport. It ended in 2001 after several debilitating bouts of cancer therapy. In between those times, she was hit by an 18-wheel truck and suffered a bone-shattering bike crash while trying to qualify for the Olympics. Despite this, Smyers remained focused, never letting vicissitude stand in her way. She trained and raced through it all, notching up world class results, including becoming the only female athlete to win both the Ironman Championships and the ITU World Championships in the same year. This is her remarkable story.
“Triathlon was the key to getting me through the hard times. It kept me focused and always looking towards the future”
continued for several years, as she notched up six consecutive US National titles, a silver medal at the 1993 ITU World Championships and a runner-up spot at the Hawaii Ironman in 1994. But it was in 1995 that she reached the pinnacle of her career by winning both the Ironman and the ITU World Triathlon Championships just five weeks apart, becoming the only female athlete to win both in the same year.
Her run of strong performances didn’t end there. A year later she won gold at the
HALL OF FAME KAREN SMYERS
Comeback QueenSee what Karen Smyers went through
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AIM HIGHER IN 2012
WHATEVER YOUR ABILITY, BE INSPIRED TO ACHIEVE YOUR TRIATHLON AMBITIONS IN THIS OLYMPIC YEAR
WORDS Matt Anniss, Tom Ballard and Elizabeth Hufton PHOTOGRAPHY James Lampard
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Get InspiredAchieve your goals this year
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Don’t miss this month
WOW! APRIL already. How time flies when you’re training and racing up a storm! April signals Ironman time and rest assured that a whole bunch of you will be in full swing and possibly taper with PE, which is
just around the corner. Good luck to all of you. If you have put the training time in, I have no doubt that you’ll be rewarded on that red carpet come April 22nd. What I do want to encourage is keeping on going after Ironman has come and gone. It takes so much effort to get into the best shape of your life, and then we let it all slip away after the race is done by going into hibernation for a few months. Yes, of course you need the downtime and the recovery process needs to take its course; but once that’s over, the sky’s the limit! Utilise the fitness gains and try some other events after IM. Some of you will be doing Comrades, others might try a duathlon or two. The point is, don’t sit on the couch and wallow through the winter. Keep your fitness levels in relatively good shape and your body will thank you for it when summer eventually comes around again towards September. Apart from the local scene, the international scene is buzzing. We have a lot of athletes who will be travelling to Germany in July for the Roth Challenge. We also have a couple of Elite South Africans on the international tours covering short distance, long distance and Xterra. The world of triathlon is big and if you have some money to travel, then look for a challenge off-shore to keep those fires burning. This issue is RED HOT with the very best in Iron gear, so enjoy the pics! We have a great training zone feature in this issue as well as the normal news, race reports and more that make Triathlon Plus SA number one. I must apologise for the slip-up with our front cover caption last month. We said that the front cover athlete was Andreas Raelert when in fact it was Marino Van Hoenacker. I do appreciate the feedback from my regular readers
and will be featuring a whole host of age group triathletes in our I LOVE TRI feature over the coming weeks and months. Thanks for supporting the publication, we
truly appreciate our readers as well as our trusty advertisers. Good luck with IM, I’ll be watching and cheering all of you on to that ultimate goal of finishing the IM! Then once that’s done, doing it in good time! Best in Tri
Glen
Glen Gore editor
glen@triathlonplussa co.za
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