Man, if you guys are wondering how Stefan Kuserilis finish Ironman Arizona in 9:40 and got on the 35-39 podium training out of New York City, I have his secret.
The man is a training machine. His is built from the same East German Factory that gave you the likes of Udo Bolts and Olaf Ludwig. I am just glad that he spent his youth doing breastroke in some East German sports academy swimming 100K per week and not biking.
Stefan shows up to IronTour Lake Placid. I thought Barry Dmitruk and I were over the top, always adding "extra miles to workouts" but Stefan make us look like a bunch of soft North American boys on lame designer spreadsheet plans.
Lake Placid IronTour was supposed to be a 4K swim on Friday, on Saturday a 186K ride with 10,200 ft of climbing (7 hour ride) followed by a 30 min transition run and then an hour later a 3K swim. Then Sunday a 2 hour run followed by a 100K ride including 4500 ft of vertical. We upped the ante from a cool down 1 K swim, to a 2K hammerfest swim on the Ironman LP course to close off the IronTour. The total training time on Sat was 8:20. Sunday was 6 hours even.
Through the whole weekend, Stefan kept asking to add on MORE miles. On Sunday, when we were all cooked, he wanted to run more. His entire day on Sunday was a personal Interval session as he would surge ahead and come back to get us. My only saving grace was staying within a minute of him to the Whiteface summit on Saturday and on Sunday, actually beating him to the climb to the Veterans's memorial highway gate. Something about being 45 lbs lighter likely helped me.
On the 14th hour of training on the weekend, we were riding up high falls Gorge at over 45 kph. At the base of Mama Bear, all we heard was "suffer you pigs" and he lets lose at over 40 kph going up that hill. I know cause I was already doing 35 kph at the base of the hill with quads on fire. While I was not totally blown, I could barely respond. I felt like Jan Ullrich getting caught by Lance in the TdF Prologue. Humbled yet amazed at the same time.
At 6'6" Stefan creates his own weather system in the wake behind him. They need an entry on weather.com for a special weather forecast for the area right behind him. He is so huge that I can actually descend a steep hill as quick as him as I push less wind. In fact, I coasted all the way down to Keene on Sunday at 80 kph while Stefan pedalled like a madman !
Anway to give you the full picture of the output from the East German sports factory, I get a call from NYC 5 min ago. Its not like 14-15 hours or so of training over 2 days is enough. For mere mortals it is over the top. I was cripple the morning. But Stefan adds another 175 mile ride from somewhere near Albany to NYC for another 10 hours of training. That's 24 hours over 3 days !
I'm telling you, we North Americans are soft. They don't make them like those East Germans in these parts.
All Hail the Kaiser. We're just a bunch of posers.
Dev
The man is a training machine. His is built from the same East German Factory that gave you the likes of Udo Bolts and Olaf Ludwig. I am just glad that he spent his youth doing breastroke in some East German sports academy swimming 100K per week and not biking.
Stefan shows up to IronTour Lake Placid. I thought Barry Dmitruk and I were over the top, always adding "extra miles to workouts" but Stefan make us look like a bunch of soft North American boys on lame designer spreadsheet plans.
Lake Placid IronTour was supposed to be a 4K swim on Friday, on Saturday a 186K ride with 10,200 ft of climbing (7 hour ride) followed by a 30 min transition run and then an hour later a 3K swim. Then Sunday a 2 hour run followed by a 100K ride including 4500 ft of vertical. We upped the ante from a cool down 1 K swim, to a 2K hammerfest swim on the Ironman LP course to close off the IronTour. The total training time on Sat was 8:20. Sunday was 6 hours even.
Through the whole weekend, Stefan kept asking to add on MORE miles. On Sunday, when we were all cooked, he wanted to run more. His entire day on Sunday was a personal Interval session as he would surge ahead and come back to get us. My only saving grace was staying within a minute of him to the Whiteface summit on Saturday and on Sunday, actually beating him to the climb to the Veterans's memorial highway gate. Something about being 45 lbs lighter likely helped me.
On the 14th hour of training on the weekend, we were riding up high falls Gorge at over 45 kph. At the base of Mama Bear, all we heard was "suffer you pigs" and he lets lose at over 40 kph going up that hill. I know cause I was already doing 35 kph at the base of the hill with quads on fire. While I was not totally blown, I could barely respond. I felt like Jan Ullrich getting caught by Lance in the TdF Prologue. Humbled yet amazed at the same time.
At 6'6" Stefan creates his own weather system in the wake behind him. They need an entry on weather.com for a special weather forecast for the area right behind him. He is so huge that I can actually descend a steep hill as quick as him as I push less wind. In fact, I coasted all the way down to Keene on Sunday at 80 kph while Stefan pedalled like a madman !
Anway to give you the full picture of the output from the East German sports factory, I get a call from NYC 5 min ago. Its not like 14-15 hours or so of training over 2 days is enough. For mere mortals it is over the top. I was cripple the morning. But Stefan adds another 175 mile ride from somewhere near Albany to NYC for another 10 hours of training. That's 24 hours over 3 days !
I'm telling you, we North Americans are soft. They don't make them like those East Germans in these parts.
All Hail the Kaiser. We're just a bunch of posers.
Dev
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devashish paul: Jul 5, 05 9:22