Karl Tiselius: Lanzarote (Ironman training camp)

About this blog

This blog is mainly linked from karltiselius.com, my new web portal.

Since I've now moved to Switzerland, I will start to write all in Swiss-German, ...no, just kidding, but I think it's better if I try to start writing in English instead of Swedish at least. My old blogs here are most in Swedish, but for the curious (that don't understand Swedish) there are now sites or even web browsers, like Google Chrome, that can translate pages for you.

At the very first beginning of my blog history (started 2007), I was actually a web design student in Kalmar, and the purpose was to develop a own flashy websites. I then choose to start with making a first portal including a news flow regarding my adventure, daily life and not at least athletic career, I also developed a photo gallery, further links of interest etc. Some months later, services like "Blogger" and "Picasa web" came and I realized that I could use services like that instead of developing and coding HTML/CSS on my own. I ended my studies as web developer, worked a year and then made a comeback in the studies within Industrial Engineering and Management instead.

This blog is somewhat egocentric, but also a bit thinking outside the ego-box, and I aim to share pictures, videos, texts and links in a somewhat chronological order. The purpose is to picture my values in life and way of living, tell you readers what's going on right now and make my route choices in life a bit more public. The aim is to inspire.

After reading some of my blogs, one can conclude that I'm really pushing on the gas in life. "Crazy" some may think about some things that I do, but hopefully it inspires some to live a bit more, every day. I enjoy life and hope you do the same!

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Lanzarote (Ironman training camp)

Coming back to Club La Santa was a dream comes true. I was here in 2006 (I think it was that year at least...time flies). This time I went here with my IKEA Supply AG colleague Jens Nielsen and we are both training for an Ironman (the one in Copenhagen - 24rd of August this year) so what would be better than participating at a perfectly arranged "long distance triathlon camp" at this time of the year to kick start the triathlon training season.

Club La Santa! I love it here and then of course when it comes to (hard) training. For relaxation and/or romantic holiday there are other places on the canary island that I recommend (this still in fresh mind). I saved all the gps data from my trainings on Strava so you can find the sessions an see my performance during the week here if you check between 25th of February and 4th of March. To summarize it was close to 30 hours of triathlon training (swim, road biking and/or running) during these 6 days on the island, meaning almost 5 hours a day - and it went perfectly fine! Great living in a suite, healthy food and great mix of trainings (3 times a day and only 2 times on the "resting day").

After the training camp we came home in a really good shape, energetic and super fit. I'm really impressed about how well Jens managed to push all the way through the training camp in a professional way - starting with doing this level of sport first in last year - it is truly impressive.

Here are some top 10 photos (for more photos click here) and again I prefer to let the photos talk (it is optional to watch the photos with this Club La Santa song in the background):