INDOOR THRIATLON: three days at the limit of human capabilities

INDOOR THRIATLON: three days at the limit of human capabilities

“Championship” meets at the finish line of a unique triathlon-distance co-founder of the IRONSTAR project businessman Vladimir Voloshin.

On April 24 in the walls of the World Class fitness club “City of Capitals” Vladimir Voloshin began to overcome 5 official distances of the IRONMAN triathlon race. According to preliminary forecasts, the businessman planned to cover 19 km in swimming, 900 km on a bicycle fixed by a machine and 211 km by running on a track in 80 hours. All this with breaks only for an hour’s sleep and a massage.

Thefinal time was 73 hours and 50 minutes. Vladimir swam 760 pools of 25 meters at an average pace of 2.08 minutes per 100 meters. He spent 26 hours 56 minutes in the saddle of a sport bike, showing an average speed of 33-34 km/hour. The average pace on the running stage was 7 minkm. The total distance covered amounted to 1130 km. During its passage Vladimir consumed about 20,000 kilocalories from sports food and drinks, the total weight loss at the measurement after the test amounted to 4.5 kg. The triathlete-businessman was helped to prepare for the distance by a team of World Class coaches – Victoria Shubina, head of Triathlon and Valery Pluzhnikov, swimming coach.

One of the goals of this experiment, called #VChallenge by Vladimir, was to raise money for the treatment of a 15-year-old girl with the support of Rusfond. During the whole race, Vladimir managed to collect 204,622 rubles. The entire amount has already been transferred for the treatment of Yermakova Lera.

I am convinced that we are very much over-assured when planning the expected results.

“The next challenge I’m giving myself is 10 ironman distances in INDOOR conditions. So see you here at World Class in a year’s time!” – commented Voloshin right after the finish line.

During the whole race Vladimir managed to collect 204,622 rubles. The entire amount was donated for the treatment of Yermakova Lera.