The holidays are already far away for biathletes. After granting one month break At the end of the World Cup, Émilien Jacquelin from Isère has already resumed physical training for several weeks, and has just returned to shooting more recently.
That morning under the not yet overpowering sun of Corrençon-en-Vercors, the triple world champion repeated his ranges, chaining arrivals at the firing point and the series of lying and standing “the typical day is 2 hours of roller skis and 1 hour of shooting in the morning and then in the afternoon of bodybuilding or a long session of running or cycling“.
“Building the foundations of the building”
What largely fill the weeks, with twenty hours of training. It is now in the middle of summer that the success of winter is built “_I often take the example of a house of cards, I am in the process of building the foundations of the building and if I I don’t train in this period, maybe I will be able to perform and have a castle that looks like something, but the probability of it collapsing during the season would be greater “.
In the middle of all this work Emilien Jacquelin takes also time for himto take photos for example “the more the years pass the more I manage to find the right balance between working well and having time off to have other passions and escape from biathlon. I think it’s important to perform”.
An essential mental freshness, and the one who returned from Beijing with two silver medals knows something about it. Not helped by a bad wrist fracture last August, he lived a contrasting season with highs (yellow bib, the two medals at the Olympic Games, victory at Grand-Bornand,) and lows like this second part of the season without juice “there were also personal things that ate up a lot of my energy. It’s been a race against myself this end of the season and in the end I’m quite proud because everything I’ve done this season I acquired through difficulty. It’s seasons like that that will allow me to pass the last step to play to win the general classification“.
Before dream of the yellow bib Émilien Jacquelin has a first race scheduled in a few days. It will be cycling and without pressure, since he will participate in the cyclosportive “the stage of the tour” between Briançon and Alpe d’Huez, on July 10th.