Dans cette vidéo, je partage mon expérience au triathlon de l’Alpe d’Huez, en France, chez moi ! Malheureusement, à cause d’une blessure à la cheville, je n’ai pas pu terminer la course et je savais que j’allais m’arrêter au T2. Mais il était très important pour moi de participer, de donner le meilleur de moi-même en natation et en vélo, et de voir combien je me suis améliorée dans ces deux disciplines versus ma participation précédente. J’ai gagné presque 40 minutes par rapport à mon temps de 2021 — 7 minutes en natation et 30 minutes en vélo !
Ce qui a rendu cette expérience encore plus spéciale, c’était de la partager avec Luis mon compagnon Péruvien, (dans cette vidéo je m’exprime en Français et lui en Espagnol), qui a lui aussi fait une belle course et amélioré son temps. C’était très émouvant de vivre ça ensemble, surtout avec ma maman et ma grand-mère présentes pour nous encourager !
Un grand merci à Nils, notre incroyable vidéaste, et à Isaline notre merveilleuse conductrice qui ont pu nous suivre en moto tout au long du parcours. Grâce à eux, nous avons ces images incroyables à partager avec vous. J’espère que ça vous plaira ! N’oubliez pas de liker et de vous abonner !
BIG UP à l’organisation aussi pour nous faciliter tout ça!
CONTENU :
00:00 INTRO
00:29 RACING AT HOME
03:30 LAST TRAINING
09:10 LUIS READY TO RACE
14:28 RACE DAY
23:00 AFTERTHOUGHTS
25:20 CLOSING
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[Music] [Music] Oh. [Music] Hi everyone, this is Léa RICCOBONI, professional triathlete since 2025. Welcome to my YouTube channel. In this new episode, the idea is to take you with me, to immerse you in the Alpe d’Huez 2025 triathlon. I’m from here too. So, it’s true that it’s with a lot of emotion that I’m going to show you a bit of all this. I’m exactly from Bourg d’Oisans here, right at the foot of the Alpe, well, we’re just 1000 m above the descent anyway. We’re in my region. It’s a race that’s very close to my heart since I already participated in it in 2021 but as an amateur. I won the amateur general, I finished 10th with the professionals and this year I’m coming back as a professional. So, unfortunately, I’ll put it into context right away , I won’t be able to finish the race. I was unfortunately diagnosed with a small stress fracture in my ankle. But hey, it’s not serious. It’s a triathlon that’s there every year. I didn’t come specifically for that. I have my house downstairs. So, I’m going to do the swimming and the cycling as hard as I can. And honestly, I think it’s a huge privilege to be able to do the cycling knowing that I won’t be running afterward. So, it’s going to be an opportunity to give it my all in these two sports, to test myself a little on the bike. It’s also a 3-month training camp that culminates with the triathlon, which is true, that was the big goal. I’ve been here in France since May where I ran the 70.3 in Aix, the 70.3 in Nice where I had already stopped running because of my injury. Really what puts it into perspective for me not to finish the race is that Luis is going to do the whole race. He had already done it in 2021 with me. So it was really cool to finally prepare together for everything that is swimming and cycling, we did it together these last few months and so I ‘m so happy that Louis is back on the starting line. He feels fitter than ever. So the idea is also to share with you his complete experience in this Alpe triathlon. So, I think it’s also really cool to be able to show a Peruvian because he is Peruvian, he comes from Lima anyway, it’s very very far away. He comes from a completely different environment and just like me, well he fell in love with this beautiful region. So it’s also going to be great to be able to show you a bit of his experience in the Alpe Triathlon. We’re just coming out of the Pro Brief at the Royal Ours Blanc, and it’s impressive. It’s the biggest professional field there’s ever been at the Alpe Triathlon. We’re almost without any professionals, so it’s also really great to see that the event is growing year after year. The organization is really top-notch. So, tomorrow is going to be a great day. I hope to have a good feeling in the race and on the bike. They’re forecasting good weather. It’s not going to be too hot. I think it’s going to be a really great race. We’re going to start with the men’s and women’s pro M start. So that’s pretty special. It’s going to be pretty impressive to see, too, I think. Besides, we have a little video clip from the last day of training yesterday where I did a T1 on Allemond and on the road to Villard Reculas. So, I have 600m warm-up and then I have some slightly more intense series where I’m going to do 50m flat out and 100m a little slower straight away. The idea is actually to get used to starting off very, very quickly after which I’ll stabilize my heart rate a little. [Music] Good. Yes! Thank you! I’ve been swimming a lot on my own over these 3 months, whereas usually in Chile, we swim a lot in a group. It’s true that swimming in a group is super motivating. We really respect the rest times because otherwise you lose the group, you lose your feet and it forces you to go at rhythms that aren’t necessarily yours . But on the other hand, swimming on my own, well it’s true that it allows you to really focus only on your own technique, on your own sensations. Ah, it’s hot. Well, it was a good session, wasn’t it? Delicious, that? So, the Allemond pool, I didn’t know it. Well, I knew it existed but I’d never swam there. So it’s true that we’re really good because we know Gérald and Monica who are the pool managers. They’re super nice to let us in before opening and then we’ll cross our fingers that the rain stops so we can get on the bike. I think we’ll only do uphill. So I was saying, we do a T1, the swim-bike sequence which is something that I didn’t train to do very often and then well as I already said, it’s true that as a professional this sequence of swimming to T1, it’s super important, super strategic because we can leave with a group or not on the bike. So it’s true that we really took advantage of these last few weeks to come and swim in Allemond because in fact from Allemond there is the start of a huge amount of road. So it’s true that well it’s super practical. We just get out of the water, hop, I change quickly and then we get on the bike. Just before the race we do with my coach, we do a lactate test. So I’m walking around with that and with that, we can tell him how much lactate I actually have in my blood because lactate is a waste product that can be reused or not by the body. The idea is to do one after each series, actually. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh shit! No, not at all. Luckily, it’s not cold. Luckily, it’s not cold and luckily I don’t have to really go down. There, that’s it. Anyway, the work is done. So, I’m going to communicate all the data to my coach. And then based on that, I think we’ll have a little call tomorrow to talk a little about race pace. So there you go. Louise, how did you feel in the water this morning? Good, a little cold but good. I ate a lot. Ah yes, it’s true that we didn’t have a long digestion time but it’s part of training the stomach and also getting the body used to digesting quickly. A ver, with Lea our conocimos in el 2017 in Panama because our conocimos in Panama. I went to Panama from Adidas, Germany and I went to Adidas from Peru, but I went on a running track exactly 10 km from where Lea took me. Yo yo me felt well prepared and surprised Lea Lea salió con todo, me ganó and ahí llamó mucho mi attention. You’ve had cycling experience, you’ve learned to ride a bike, and you’re ready to ride it if you want to ride it. I say that yes. The conseguí a bike, the pregunté if sabía nadar y pues si, ambién sabía nadar y como que ahí comenzó el tema del triatlón. Lea ganó esa triatlón sprint, me acuerdo, y luego queríamos algo más. Our metimos at an olympico, the regalé in Lea a bicycle of route so that I could accompany. We are incredible in the Olympic triathlon as well. There you go, “Okay, let’s take on a medio Iron Man.” Y escogimos Cartagena. Cartagena 2019. Lea quedó tercera en esta carrera, consiguió su cupo al mundial y pues yo creo que fue ese ese el punto de quiebre en donde nos dimos cuenta que este estilo de vida nos gustaba, que eramos competivos, quebamos teníamos un poquito hambre de más, de buscar más y más y más. Wow. Primera vez en Bugdosan. It makes me an impressive place. I have heard that we have reached the Lón airport, Lea’s dads will receive us. Night time, 2 hours of caminoa hasta hasta Lea’s house. We didn’t see many of the landscapes, so I discovered the next day we found some impressive landscapes in Lea’s house. A house in the middle of the camp surrounded by mountains, all green, blue sky, increible. O sea, comes with a wow effect. Luego de eso, salir, conocer a poco más por el pueblo, ver que había mucho ambiente sportivo, outdoors, cycling and always knowing the Alpe d’Huez, ¿no? First, first by car, come many cyclists and experience the Alpe d’Huez, the famous Alpe d’Huez. Y ahí es donde yo le dije, “Lea, tú ya lo hiciste.” Y ella nunca l’había hecho. And so it was that I was surprised a lot, that when I got into it I first saw the mishaps together and had a delightful experience, said yo. I am enchanted. Sufría, although it is still with a community of cyclists that is also why we have cyclists on this route, many mountains, many outdoors, many sports and that is why we think it is one of the great cycling mechanisms in France. You know that you know what she came from originally, heard a little more like she is, like she is, how she thinks, like she is. of this abierta, she is a sportswoman, she is a disciplinarian, she is a natural person, she is a hunter for animals. Hear many things, the verdad that is impressive the lugar where she was born, where she cried, and a beautiful childhood. We hope that we will visit Lea’s family in June, July of 2021 and we will have to take a trip to the Alps. We believe that it is not entered into existence that this event occurs and our registrations do not last long. The peculiarity of this event is what invites us to the family. My mamá wine from Italy, estaban les papas de Lea, sus abuelas y yo creo que antes, pendante y después la competencia, toda la familia se empezó dar cuenta de la importancia que tenía el triatlón en nuestras vidas. The 2021 Alpe d’Huez race was a road to discover, ¿no? For my personal thought that this is the most good thing that he did in my life. The landscapes are impressive. The road is as durable as it gets. Partida masiva en el agua, un pristine crystal clear lake. No es impressive. Take about 8 hours or less. Lea hizo algo de 7 hours y media. She made the decision, we decided with the professionals and we always held on to the intention of volver. We don’t die in the next few years, it’s time to come to 2025. Entonces, the idea is to be competitive, to enjoy the market, so to all, that’s the creo that is most important, to enjoy it and to do it all, to do it all. Entonces, race day of the Alpe d’Huez triathlon, an incredible day, full of emotions, the truth that superó by mucho las expectations. Arrancamos el día temprano, 7:30, llegamos aa la transición, a pesar de que la partida era 9:30, nos dio tempo para poder en eh de la transición, del warm, de estirar a poquito, de hacer todo sans ningún typeo de sión. There are 15 minutes before the game, a short time of heating, the last minute freeze and the best of all, the game is long. 2 1 [Music] on [Music] in I swam really well, I felt really good. So a bit of what I was telling you, it really paid off to be super focused on technique. So I stuck with a good group and it was cool to swim with guys anyway. There were always feet and then there was another girl, we were recognizable, we still had the yellow caps, us pro women. And so I said to myself I’m not losing her. I really forced myself not to lose the rhythm and Swimming when I was told that I was only 3 minutes behind the first, one minute behind Barbara Riveros who is Olympic 7th woman, well I was pretty happy, the day was starting off pretty well. And then the bike, well so happy to be on the bike. It’s true that we trained a lot on bikes with Louis in the region. So a course that we know really well, riding at home. So it’s true that it was really cool this start on the edge of Lake Almond. I made the choice to be really with the time trial bike to be aerodynamic, the time trial helmet. So I really wanted to take advantage of these rolling parts. Plus, I go down pretty well with my skiing background. It’s true that I don’t have apprehension of speed, a good reading of the cuts. So I I I I started rather to send from the beginning to pass some guys well who were on road bikes too. Super cool all this descent until Chilean the primera sub de la morte bastante bastante intenso yendo al límite 160 bpm aguantando era mi límite aguantando ese top bastante motivation mucha gente en las calles eso alentando a los ciclistas hydration and nutrition at the foot of the letra según lo planeado. bastante bien. Oh shit! Is it Ah that’s true, I still think go Luis too strong. Uh I even had a big slump after the descent of Malissol and the start of the Col d’Orn on the flat, I wasn’t I didn’t feel super powerful. So I haven’t finished analyzing all these results, but I’m wondering if I missed a bit of training, uh, on the flat, if I had to do as much climbing as descending. Did I miss a bit of practicing, really putting in the heat on the flat? I cramped up too. So I think that’s clearly my lack of hydration. Uh, luckily, it was really cool to have to deny on the bike the whole course. I knew he was going to see my mom and my grandmother who were waiting for us, uh, at the Col d’Ornon, Col d’Ornon, it’s already home. And then I said, “Stop, really, you know that you have more than an hour of effort in the climb of the Alpe, a little more than 1h10 while the others, they have at least 2 3 4 maybe even running . You can’t, you can’t lower it like that, it motivates her.” I really picked myself up at the end of the colnon when it starts to get a little steeper. I started to pass people again. I had a new breath of fresh air. The descent of the coln. I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed going through the coln again . There was really a lot of public, something compared to 2021. There are really a lot more people in the streets and finally the start of the climb of the Alpe the same, there was Nils’s mom too. So that was super motivating. And the first turns of the Alpe climb, they are so steep that the watts come out and again, I have a drop. So it’s true that I was quite disappointed with the watts that I was able to put in the three climbs. I hoped, I hoped for more, I hoped to feel better and I wanted to accelerate fully after US to really finish without having anything left in my legs. But there was already not much left in my legs. My pulse was not increasing anymore. Finally, I think that really, uh, I had a nutrition problem. In fact, since I had in mind that I was not going to run, I told myself well, if I don’t cover all my caloric needs from the bike, it doesn’t matter because I don’t have to run after. But I think that was a mistake. Uh, I had calculated a calorie base of 2200 as that gave me in 2021. But it’s true that at the time, since I was putting in fewer watts, well there, in fact, I burned more. I burned 2800. So it’s true that I found myself quite ledge level uh level carb level on the bike. Yeah, the climb of the Alpe, it’s always super hard, even if you know it by heart. It’s even harder because you know that you can never rest. But what was crazy is that from turn 8, even before arriving at the Dutchmen’s corner where there was the last avito, you could hear the noise of the US fan zone. You could already hear this fervor, this energy and it’s true that it was super motivating for this last third of the climb. And then you arrive in the US and wow, I had seen the Tour de France go to Germany a few days before, but I felt the same as at the Tour de France and you really had all the people cheering you on. It brought tears to my eyes. It was incredible. Really thank you very much too. We said thank you to the volunteers, to the whole Loram team and also thank you very much to all the people who were on the road. It was incredible. And uh I think that’s why we all love sport so much whether we’re participating or watching, it’s about emotions and human beings are emotional beings and that’s what makes us live, share them, feel them and wow, it was really really cool. I still did uh the 8th time uh on the bike and I came 8th in T2 which is pretty decent. There was a great level, a great line, it’s still the first third. There were 24 professional women at the start. So on the other hand, again I feel like it’s violent. Nils, he had to stop filming and help me stretch, to straighten my legs. Oh no, it was really violent. So clearly I’m dehydrated. I know that and there I made a mistake yeah that normally I shouldn’t have made. I’m quite disappointed in myself on that front. And it is safe to say that the last time the last one happened, the Alps, believe that the last longer also lasted because there were enough accumulations in the stones, ¿no? Llegué to T2, contento. I hope Lea, eh, for a super motivation, I say a mountain of extra energy. Estaba Nils also ahí con la cámara y nada, otro gel para dentro. There are 20 km to go, ¿no? And it’s the last sight, it’s the last 3 km that goes down, it stinks increible. sabía que ya se acababa la carrera y ese finish line, esa meta final fue solo disfrutar, fue solo disfrutar de la gente que estaba ahí, fue disfrutar de de cruzar esa meta, abrazarme con Lea. There is also motivation to start bullfighting because it is because it is not possible to correr, it is not possible to correr and it is a medalla or this medalla is for their backs. O sea, the training we did together and nothing, superfeliz de de la experiencia de cruzar una vez más esta esta finish line y nada, espero poder volver a cruzarla muchas veces más, seguir mejorando el tiempo y tremendo día although I heard great, great emotions from my mom, my grandmother too who had gone up to the Alpe d’Os to see us. They have a hard day too, a lot of emotions. It’s true that I cried a lot and it was really a super, super mixed feeling. I was, I was happy to have finished, relieved, but I was also sad not to run, not to cross this finish line which is so beautiful at the Alpe d’Os this triathlon, it is really really magnificent. Bravo to really to Cyril, to Baptiste, to Laurence, the whole family, the whole organization. Thanks to the volunteers. Very, very proud of Louis who really did too well. I don’t think he mentioned his times, he’s too humble, eh, but he still improved by 28 minutes compared to 2021. In terms of times, I still improved the swimming by 6 or 7 minutes and the cycling by half an hour. So if I ran at the level I was running at in the last classes, I think I would have improved my time by between 40 and 50 minutes. I still hope it’s still great to see how far we’ve come since 2021 and as I said, we’ll be back. In any case, we have some really awesome images thanks to Nils and our little biker. Thank you very much to Isaline, she managed so well. Really, it was so cool to see them. And also, you might have seen behind this magnificent background, it’s the Lac de Buclé. This is where I’ve been practicing open water, so open water swimming for the past three months. I’ve been there at least once a week, maybe twice. So it’s true that I think it ‘s also been a big advantage to practice so much open water lately. And right now, the day after the race, what I systematically have on my schedule by my coach is to do 1000 m of very easy swimming just to move the body. In fact, moving the body horizontally, increasing the heart rate a little, it really oxygenates the body. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you haven’t yet finished the Alpe Deise triathlon, don’t hesitate. There is the reminder that there is the duathlon, the triids for your little ones, the distance L and the M distance that took place today. I’m Lovony, a professional triathlete, and thank you for following me. Don’t hesitate to like and subscribe; it helps me and the whole team enormously. So here we are, we’re going to take our little leisurely dives with Louis. [Music] his [Music] and his [Music] Jus [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] represent
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Bravo pour les perf ! Vidéos toujours au top et superbes images.