Announcements

It's race week in Kona, HI which means the 2014 GoPro Ironman World Championship is this Sunday, October 11th! For some athletes who qualified at year's end in 2013, this is a very long time in coming. For others, including the professional athletes, this culminates a very long year that included hours upon hours of training, racing, traveling and just balancing life, work and play!

QT2 Systems has announced the membership criteria, and application process, for its 2015 PRO Elite, Age Group Elite, and Advanced triathlon teams. The QT2 Systems racing team is one of the world's most recognized teams, having earned 32 Kona slots, during the season, QT2 will be sending 27 athletes to the 2014 Ironman World Championships in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. 

QT2 Systems, LLC is very excited to announce that it has, again, qualified more than 30 athletes, for the Ironman World Championships in Kailua-Kona, HI on October 11, 2014.  Having qualified 31 athletes, throughout the 2014 qualifying season, a large contingent of QT2ers will be making the trip to the Big Island, and racing.  This represents the second year, in a row, that the coaching organization’s team of professional, elite, and age group athletes, from all over the world, has sent at least 30 athletes to the world championship event.  

In fifteen previous Lake Placid Ironman's not once was the two-loop swim of Mirror Lake shortened. That is until 2014. With the forecast leading up to Sunday's race calling for scattered showers it wasn't if the rain would come, but when.

QT2 Systems (QT2) is excited to announce that it is the "Official Coach" of the Little Debbie IRONMAN^® Chattanooga triathlon, benefitting Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.  QT2 is a world leading triathlon coaching group, specializing in the training for, and fueling of, long distance events.  

The Memorial Hermann Ironman 70.3 Texas is historically one of the early season tests for QT2 athletes who have spent the previous five months enduring hours and many miles on their indoor trainers. This year was no different!  Nearly 30 QT2 athletes lined up for the start of the April 6th race.  Unlike previous years, the conditions on race day were practically ideal. Cool and overcast skies, combined with significant winds, made for a less than ideal first leg of the swim but an extremely fast bike segment. By the time the athletes hit T2, heading out onto to the run, the only thing standing in their way was a bit of humidity.  But, even that wasn’t enough. In addition, we once again debuted our brand new race kits for 2014 courtesy of Pearl Izumi!

Another very important aspect of being a pro is the ability to handle adversity – adversity comes in many forms. On race day there is always adversity, whether it’s dropped nutrition or a crash or a mechanical – how the athlete handles this mentally is always key to their success on race day. Being able to stay calm and collected when things go wrong takes practice. The QT2 Pro camps take these 2 concepts – professionalism and adversity training, and forces the athletes to address these things continuously every day for 17 days. The training they will endure will be some of the hardest they will face in their lives.  These athletes were training up around 30-40 hours a week which was roughly 25-35,000 yards of swimming, ~375-450 miles on the bike, and 40-60 run miles depending on the athlete.

Founder Jesse Kropelnicki, of QT2 Systems, has announced the first of three PRO/ELITE squad environment training camps of 2014. 

After an 8-week trial period, of our new Athlete Advantage service, we have found it to be VERY successful, and beneficial to athletes! With that, we are continuing forward with it under the same structure! 

Next Wednesday, November 6th, QT2 will be piloting a brand new service to the first 15 athletes that register!