Chasing The Sun

September 6th, 2009 | Posted by: Dirk | Filed in Lifestyle, Training, Travel

Playitas

What a great time! After Prague, I took some fun time off to explore Barcelona-which was awesome, impressive but also a bit stressful like most big cities.

After 6 easy days, I went back to another training camp to do some more necessary work. Location: the hot and dry south of France. The purpose of the camp was to get used to the heat and the sweltering hot conditions. Read More…


Vice European Champion

August 12th, 2009 | Posted by: Dirk | Filed in Race Report

Euro Silver

Wow- what a day! Ok- let’s start from the beginning.

Leaving Font Romeu was a batlle with all our belongings and Barrett plus bike in and around my car.

I was so happy once we arrived in Barcelona with the bike still on top- the curvy roads took a lot out of us- since we had to make up some time on the way to the airport.

The flight was good, but the travel took a long time, so we had a 12hr door2door trip until we got to our nice hotel in Prague- Read More…


Mental Training Series Part 1: Ultimate Intention Statement

August 3rd, 2009 | Posted by: Dirk | Filed in Featured Posts, Mental Training

I happy to finally announce that I am starting a new Mental Training Series on Live & Let Tri that highlights techniques that I use to mentally prepare for races!

I have some great stuff in store for you guys that I am sure will catapult your results to the next level (I know it did for me)!

This is the first part of the series–and focuses on the Ultimate Intention Statement (UIS)–an extremely powerful tool that I started using last year in order to qualify for the Olympics Read More…


Update from Up High

August 2nd, 2009 | Posted by: Dirk | Filed in Training

Font Romeu

After the successful cycling competitions at Luxembourg Champs, I packed my stuff and left Luxembourg for another long term training block. First, I went to the South of France, near Perpignan, and stayed there for a two week block. Focus was more on speed and getting used to some longer training sessions before heading to Font Romeu to enjoy three weeks of altitude training Read More…


Luxembourg National Cycling Championships

June 29th, 2009 | Posted by: Dirk | Filed in Competition, Featured Posts, Race Report

Thursday’s contre-la-montre (Time Trial), 18km:

I was very excited to be part of the Cycling Championships in Luxembourg this year, even though it was during my racing break, I was still looking forward to a good performance to show the cyclists that I am a good rider. I knew the race course and I had my training partner and friend Paul Westwood behind me in the follow car; Alicia was there as well and she filmed the whole thing!

Check out the YouTube video above! Crazy, I know Read More…


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