Eneko Llanos reveals his start of the season

Eneko Llanos has published on social networks which will be the tests in which he will participate in this first part of the 2017 season.

El Ironman 70.3 from Buenos Aires and South African Ironmanwere their main objectives in the search for a new classification for the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii.

Eneko that the November of last year suffered a fall that made him end the season, and this year fully recovered and having changed his nutritional strategy is seen with a good performance that wants to test in competition

This is what he has published in Networks:

"The 2016 season did not end too well. While preparing for the Arizona Ironman in November I went to the ground arriving home after a bike workout. A wet bike lane, with leaves and some mud, without realizing I was on the ground hitting with all the lower back, at low speed but a very strong blow.

The blow to the back caused a bone edema that I was diagnosed through a resonance thanks to the rapid support of the medical services of BAT Basque Team and IMQ. The pain that the edema caused me prevented me from practicing almost any type of training. So I had to finish the season, treat my injury to recover as soon as possible and start making plans for the 2017.

In addition to the rest, the treatment based on hyperthermia in Essential accelerated the recovery process a lot and in a month the pain subsided and I found myself in a position to resume training. The opportunity to close the year in Arizona logically has already passed and it was time to start with a new season and a new planning.

We spent the end of the year in Fuerteventura, at the Oasis Papagayo facilities. We arrived all the family colds to these last days of the 2016, reason why we could not extract all the party to which Oasis Papagayo offers a triathlete, not even we could discover many routes in bici by the north zone of Fuerteventura, but the impression that we took as a training place was undoubtedly very good.

Eneko Llanos at the 2016 Ironman World Championship

From the beginning of the new year, we gradually recovered our health and after returning home and making some first preparatory weeks, in the second part of January and the first weeks of February I was able to start working in a more serious and planned way. of the first objectives of the year.

In January I started with the first intensity workouts (Z5 and Z4), continued at the same time with the strength work, speed and accumulation that had been developing since December. And the gym work 2 times a week, general strengthening and injury prevention in these first sessions.

In February I continue the first part with this type of work but now I start with the first specific workouts of rhythm of Ironman and 70.3 since I have just around the corner the first triathlons of the year.

I will start competing in the 70.3 of Buenos Aires the March 12. A first test where I want to add some point towards the Kona ranking. Three weeks later the April 2 will compete in the Ironman of South Africa.

After looking at the calendar at the beginning of the year, I think it's the two tests that can best come to me in order to get the classification for Kona. It will be two long trips and we will have to see how these trips affect me, especially the return from Buenos Aires, but the truth is that I did not have many more options to compete and add the first points for the ranking.

The Ironman of South Africa is African continental championship so a good position there can leave me well placed in the ranking for the rest of the season. It is a test in which I competed two years ago and although they have changed the routes at least the place will be familiar to me and that always helps when considering an Ironman.

Regarding Buenos Aires, it is a test that I really like, especially since I have never been to Argentina and I think that the experience, apart from sports, will be interesting and enriching.

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I have made important changes these months. After Kona looking for a solution to my stomach problems in the Ironman I contacted several specialists for help. Finally I decided to advise myself by Paul Laursen, an expert Canadian sports physiologist, who is guiding me in some quite drastic changes in my way of feeding myself.

Since October I have restricted the intake of carbohydrates in my daily diet to a minimum. Being a vegetarian is still a difficult process but I think I'm doing quite well.

What is the OBJETIVE? Forcing the metabolism to work to the maximum "pulling fat" (to use colloquial language), so that on the day of the competition it has to provide the minimum amount of carbohydrates possible and thus avoid the stomach problems that I have been suffering in the Ironman marathon for the past three years.

As all changes raise doubts, I'm excited, I'm afraid, I'm worried ... but so far the training results are being quite good and surprising on many occasions, so I'm looking forward to seeing how I can perform in competition, especially at Ironman , and for that reason I am very excited about the Ironman of South Africa.

So far what the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 have given. I hope you have started the season on the right foot.”

Networks Eneko Llanos

Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eneko-Llanos/51164373229

Twitter:http://twitter.com/#!/enekollanos

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enekollanos/?hl=es

Website: http://www.enekollanos.com/

Source and Photos: Facebook Eneko Plains

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