Loic Helin

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Until now I have worked pretty local (Belgium, Netherlands, France and 2 Canadians) and I joined TeamTBB only in november last year. Two of the newly TeamTBB pro’s (Stefanie Adam and Francois Humblet) are athletes I formed ‘from the ground up’. Stefanie is training with me for the 5th season, Francois I know since almost 10 years, but we only work together on a structural base since fall 2012.

I coach a team consisted of mostly strong age group athletes who mainly focus on Ironman distance. The last 8 seasons I had a total of 43 ‘Ironman Hawaii qualifying performances’ done by 22 different athletes, all in the stronger categories like 30-34, 35-39 and 40-44. Known athletes in the squad are Sam Gyde (full time working guy, finished 29th – 31st – 24th overall at Ironman Kona the last 3 years), Stefanie Adam (fastest female biker in Hawaii the last 2 years), the Veldeman Brothers (did 1-2-3 in their agegroup at Ironman New York a few years ago), Francois Humblet (Vice european champion duathlon sprint distance).

At this moment the squad counts 7 athletes who did an ironman sub 9h:
Fred Sleutel – 8.43 – IM Klagenfurt 2008
Loïc Hélin – 8.53 – IM Canada 2008
Sam Gydé – 8.59 – IM Florida 2010 // 8.50 – IM Hawaii 2011 // 8.45 IM Hawaii 2013 // 8.57 IM Frankfurt 2014
Stijn Veldeman – 8.57 – IM Florida 2011
Koen Vanderbeke – 8.54 – IM Klagenfurt 2013
Glenn Vekemans – 8.53 – IM Frankfurt 2013 // 8.59 IM Hawaii 2013 // 8.58 IM Austria 2014
Dave Lietaert – 8.58 IM Frankfurt 2014

For me TeamTBB is a chance for upcoming pro athletes and the better development athletes to try to make it as a full time pro athlete and that’s why I joined this structure with my squad. Most of my coaching, even for the Belgians, goes from distance. I try to match athletes together for key workouts so they can become stronger by training with strong training partners. As a former pro level athlete after a age group career (2 age group duathlon world titles), I perfectly know what it takes to do combination of building up a sports career besides of work and/or study.