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Daniela Ryf Daniela Ryf is amazingly good at swimming, cycling and running fast, and incredibly bad at swimming, cycling and running slowly. “I want to give it my all every time I train,” she says. “I only want Daniela to give it her all in races,” her Australian trainer Brett Sutton counters. The search for a compromise has been going on for five years. Every couple of weeks, it escalates to shouting and screaming. Ryf isn’t nicknamed ‘Angry Bird’ for nothing. “She needs to learn to focus her strengths,” Sutton has insisted since 2015. “Nobody would beat her for years.” But Ryf wants to do things the hard way. “I can only get better when I push myself to the limit,” she says. But what really delivers success? Strategic training or total commitment? Maybe it’s the balance that comes from this quest for a compromise. After all, Ryf is the best female triathlete in the world today. The 31-year-old from the Swiss canton of Solothurn has won every Ironman World Championship since 2015. She has picked up four Ironman 70.3 (half-distance triathlon) World Championship titles, two Ironman European Championship crowns, and at last year’s Ironman World Champs in Hawaii she set a new course record of 8:26:18. Her trainer believes that, given perfect conditions, Ryf could shave another 15 minutes off her time. That would place her in the men’s top 10. And Ryf’s course record in 2018 was attained in the face of crazy adversity: she was stung by a jellyfish shortly before the start, and handicapped by pain and numbness during the swim (see page 40). Who knows what time she could have achieved in optimal conditions? Is Ryf so successful because she can put herself through the ringer like no one else? Is it because she’s more talented, trains harder and has greater willpower? Possibly. But the Swiss triathlete has her own secret for success: she doesn’t solve problems, she uses them as a source of energy. Here, Ryf provides six examples of pain-driven power from her career… Acts of nature teach you patience May 8, 2010, ITU World Championship, Seoul The biggest win of her career at the time, this triathlon saw Ryf produce an explosive sprint finish to beat both the world number one and the reigning world champion and finally establish her place among the global elite. But following a relaxed victory celebration at a South Korean club and a short stopover in Singapore, she then endured the worst flight of her life, spending most of the 10,300km journey to Zürich in the toilet. From that day on, for almost two years, Ryf battled persistent and careerthreatening intestinal problems. “I mostly suffered this deadening fatigue,” she recalls. “But the constant nausea was almost as bad. As soon as I exerted myself in training, I had to throw 34 THE RED BULLETIN
“I CAN ONLY GET BETTER IF I PUSH MYSELF TO THE LIMIT” Ryf doesn’t believe in relaxed training sessions
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