{"id":53613,"date":"2025-08-11T17:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/blog-julie-derron-training-in-yuxi-china\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:04:59","slug":"blog-julie-derron-training-in-yuxi-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/blog-julie-derron-training-in-yuxi-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Julie Derron, Training in Yuxi, China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Julie Derron, one of the stars of Swiss triathlon, is blogging about her experiences in Yuxi as she prepares for the 2024 season.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of January I packed my bags and made a big trip to China where I would spend the next 3+ months training for triathlon. Why China you might ask?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My coach Brett Sutton is also the National Coach of the Chinese National Triathlon Team and is based in Yuxi, China for the start of the year. Because 2024 is a very important year for me (upcoming Olympic Games in Paris) it is important to me to be under the direct and daily guidance of Brett and therefore I decided to join the team in China to prepare for the season as best as I can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese team is very welcoming and the facilities in Yuxi are great. It is a mountainous region at about 1700m of altitude. The scale of everything here is much bigger than what I am used to in Switzerland. In and around our training base there are about six running tracks and the pool has a 25m pool AND a 50m pool both with ten lanes. But what makes me happiest is the riding. There are mountains and this is almost essential for a climbing lover like me. The nature is really impressive too and I was lucky enough to have a couple of easy rides to explore the area around Yuxi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The training is not very different from what I am used to. When I first got here, we put a big focus on the swim with several 2h swim sessions per week. And I do feel these sessions pay off and see improvements in the swim. Another aspect we have been training is swimming with the wetsuit. A couple of times per week I would put on my Apex Flow at the start of the session and after 500-1000m I would practice taking the wetsuit off (which is pretty lightning fast in the Orca!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the bike we focus on strength and the run training is a mix of speed and endurance with regular build runs thrown in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The food here is excellent. Of course, it\u2019s been an adjustment to eat noodles for breakfast and my rice consumption has increased massively. I also miss Swiss cheese and good bread but luckily I brought a big storage of dark chocolate. This past weekend I started my season at the Asia Triathlon Cup in Putrajaya, Malaysia. I decided to race a lower-key continental cup to get back into the routine of racing and blow out the cobwebs. I had a great experience in Malaysia. It was very hot and humid but I had a great race and executed what I aimed to do. As a bonus I won the race which is a nice boost to start the season \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the beginning of March I will race in Abu Dhabi for the World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) which will be an important race for my Olympic aspirations. I am happy to have had the chance to race in Putrajaya and build up my confidence through racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julie Derron, one of the stars of Swiss triathlon, is blogging about her experiences in Yuxi as she prepares for the 2024 season. At the beginning of January I packed my bags and made a big trip to China where I would spend the next 3+ months training for triathlon. Why China you might ask? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53614,"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53613\/revisions\/53614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espacetriathlon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}