BEST IRONMAN FLORIDA COACHING
THIERRY BILLET GETS 3 PB’s
By Quin Beech Certified Ironman Coach providing the best ironman Florida coaching experience.
I’ve just had the great pleasure of seeing a very, very happy man. Thierry completed the Florida Ironman on Saturday and absolutely ‘smashed it’, definitely enjoying the best Ironman Florida Coaching of the day.
- 10:41:07 a personal best
- 11th (age group) a personal best
- 3:35:06 marathon a personal best
I first met Thierry sat on the edge of a very cold lake in the Utah desert, I’d already swam and was trying to warm up in the early morning sun, Thierry was just trying to coax himself into the cold water, a chat was started (I think it went something like “Ahhh! that’s cold” and Thierry quickly became my favourite Frenchman, even if I don’t know any others.
We raced St George together on that ‘hell of a day’ and suffice to say that my coach, our very own Peaker Garrie Prosser (British Triathlon Level 3 High Performance Coach) got it right and maybe Thierry’s coach didn’t. 1 – 0 to the Peaker’s.
Over the following weeks we kept in touch and I became involved in helping Thierry train and improve as he felt he had stagnated and was getting what he felt he wanted or needed from his current coach. Eventually Thierry asked me to be his full-time coach and prepare him for Ironman Florida and the rest is now history. Well done Thierry!
THIERRY’S JOURNEY SOFAR
Thierry’s triathlon journey started only a few years ago when he started running to help stop smoking. He trained himself and completed a couple of half marathons and twice finished the Miami marathon.
As a personal challenge he entered a 70.3 triathlon finishing in 5:13 and found that he had qualified for Team USA Age Group at the ITU World Champs in Almere. Hilariously Thierry thought that this was another 70.3 race and only learned later that it was a full distance race. Thierry at the time was working in Tokyo and started peddling endlessly in his small Tokyo flat, enough for him to get an impressive 11:03 at Almere, Netherlands.
He has now completed 3 full distance Ironman events at Ironman St George, Ironman Alaska and Ironman Florida as well as numerous other triathlons and running events.
If you were to meet Thierry you would find him relaxed, amusing, witty, impulsive and charming which to be honest hides the fact that he is very motivated and driven, determined to achieve. He wants to qualify for Kona and is trying is hardest to get to the big Island and the Ironman World Championships. To do this is going to be very tough and Thierry knows this, he has joined Peak XV Tri Coaching to help him “be the best that he can be” and so far, so good.
BEST IRONMAN FLORIDA COACHING
To give Thierry the best Ironman Florida coaching possible I changed his training routine, placing a greater emphasis on recovery, and quality over quantity which are corner stones of our Peak XV Tri coaching philosophy. Thierry will tell you that he felt better prepared and ready to race Florida Ironman than ever before.
2023 season is coming up fast and we’re busy planning Thierry’s next events. This is challenging to say the least; did I mention that our favourite Frenchman is impulsive?
As of now, his ‘A’ race will be Ironman Canada, Mount Tremblant in August, when we will be hoping to improve further and get in the top 10 age group finishers. However, watch this space because Thierry is extremely driven and motivated and did I mention impulsive?
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