GASQUE

Muhammad Ali vs Laila Ali

2010-07-25T12:08:00.000-07:00

Impossible isn't a fact, it's an opinion

Adidas Muhammad ali

2010-07-25T12:03:00.000-07:00

Be your self, do your best then you will archive your dream.

Driven

2010-07-25T11:52:00.000-07:00

Lance passion is you and me

Lance Armstring the Triathlete

2010-05-05T23:39:00.001-07:00

Paradise isn´t far away.

2010-04-11T03:49:00.000-07:00

What a wonderful world.

2010-04-02T04:23:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter to you all from Luis and me.

Coach, Ironman Lanzarote Finisher and friend Mark Kleanthous!

2010-03-23T16:12:00.000-07:00

Hi Kenneth
I did an Ironman Triathlon Training video for U Tube with my Lanzarote Bike kit on.
Had over 700 hits in 3 days.
See link below "How to smash your Ironman transitions" that I have put on U Tube. (in 48 seconds)
Don't forget to send it to anyone you know.
Thanks
See you at the races!
Regards
Ironmate Mark
www.ironmantips.com

Life’s game is won by the team with the best spirit.

2010-03-21T06:06:00.000-07:00

Movie - any given sunday (Al Pacino , Jamie Fox)
"tat" Half-Time speech @ ta Football Playoffz...

Father of the track.

2010-03-19T10:03:00.000-07:00

It happend in 1992 in Barcelona Olympics, It was a cruel but very beautiful moment, with the song "Arms Wide Open"

Jennifer Lopez Triathlon Woman

2010-03-18T00:54:00.000-07:00

Celebrity Triathlon Malibu 2008

Triathlon Training

2010-03-18T00:28:00.000-07:00

All beginning is hard but rewarding with a smile and laughter!

Lance Armstring the Triathlete

2010-03-16T00:17:00.000-07:00

I am looking forward to see Lance in Kona 2011

Lanzarote Sports Destination

2010-03-14T08:52:00.000-07:00

The sport is driven by Club La Santa

Ironman Hawaii from the inside

2010-03-07T23:14:00.000-08:00

Watch this Ironman Triathlon From The Inside video for an inside perspective on the World Championships in Kona, Hawaii. Mitch Thrower, the first athlete in history to race in the Ironman with a...
Watch this Ironman Triathlon From The Inside video for an inside perspective on the World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.

Mitch Thrower, the first athlete in history to race in the Ironman with a Video Camera, provides commentary and perspective. If you've ever wondered what it's like to race in the Ironman Triathlon World Championship, have a look.

Note: Special Training and permission were required. This is the extended version of the 3 min video released earlier. A very special thanks to Max Graham, for his song, "Does She Know Yet" (avail at iTunes and used with permission).

The world fastest Ironman, Luc van Lierde.

2010-03-06T01:04:00.000-08:00

Honoured citizen for life of the county of Hawaii
Ironman Hawaii Champion and World Record holder Luc van Lierde
The Champion of Volcano Triathlon, Luc is also a very good friend of Club la Santa and Lanzarote

Julie Dibens & Eneko Llanos Champion of XTERRA

2010-03-04T00:41:00.000-08:00

Friends of Club La Santa, Lanzarote

Eneko Llanos, Champion of Lanzarote

2010-03-04T00:34:00.000-08:00

Eneko is our Spanish Ironman Champion.

Adventure is ready and ahead for us all.

2010-02-27T07:19:00.000-08:00

Come and enjoy our special Island.

I admire real honest life and power.

2010-02-24T13:43:00.000-08:00

Our dreams are beyond the possible and let this boys be our example, they are on territories where I never have been and how can I challenge them?

How to be a winner in your life.

2010-02-23T22:35:00.000-08:00

Advise from Bruyneel:
1. Follow your heart but bring along your head.
2. Be open and willing to learn.
3. Always be creating.
4. Surround yourself with the right talent.
5. Communicate and confide.
6. Give ownership, acknowledge and encourage.
7. Manage people, not tasks.
8. Constantly evaluate and be innovative.
9. Learn from losing.
10. Believe.
Just my words: remember not to be afraid and never give up for your dream.

Happy Birthday Ironman 32 Years today

2010-02-18T12:40:00.000-08:00

Julie Moss in her classic finish in Kona 1982.
Courage and pain do not always give glory.

TOUGH MEN - Barney Storey and Anthony Kapps.

2010-02-15T09:56:00.000-08:00

At Club La Santa I did have the pleasure to meet this tough cyclist Barney Storey MBE; he did ride together with Anthony Kapps. They had this Amazing Tandem high speed blowout on the boards of the velodrome just days before the Paralympic Games started. Fortunately it did not stop the guys going on to win 2 Gold medals. Awesome

Ironman Lanzarote 2009

2010-02-05T09:17:00.000-08:00

Impressive Ironman swim start, from the beach Playa Grande Puerto del Carmen.

Sister Madonna Buder

2010-02-04T15:30:00.000-08:00

What joy in her speech! A pure and happy soul. A life dedicated to advancement and seeking wholeness. No wonder she astounds the masses. GREAT EXAMPLE!!

Coca Cola Smile

2010-02-01T13:05:00.000-08:00

The 3 Smiles. The 3 V.I.P. The 3 Friends - Tomás Estévez Segura from Cobega, Markedting Coca Cola with his wife at Maratón Gran Canaria.

Danish Marathon Runner

2010-02-01T12:56:00.000-08:00

Danish Marathon Finisher in a very special running dress in the I Maratón Gran Canaria - Las Palmas 2010

Canarian Triathlon Federation 2009 Gala

2010-01-21T09:55:00.000-08:00

Gala 2009 at Club La Santa.

Here with the best Canarian athlete of the year.

The special awards went to Jose Luis Morales Isidro, for his long and good work as judge.

The Gala also presented the federation’s new logo

What a wonderfull day.

2010-01-21T01:04:00.001-08:00

Ironman for LIFE.

"MAD MAX" Ironman Lanzarote Special Athlete Champion

2010-01-13T09:38:00.000-08:00

In Lanzarote Herremans set a new wheelchair division course record with his 14:03 clocking, besting the old record set by Randy “The animal” Cadell by almost three hours.
For Herremans the race was not only a special physical challenge, but a very personal one. Four years ago he broke his back while riding down Mount Haria in Lanzarote.
“As I passed the location of my accident in training, it was every time pretty emotional for me. But in the race I was so tired and suffering, that I didn’t think about the accident. I just focused on the Ironman and was happy that I’m in the race.”
Hand cycling up the steep hills, it looked like Herremans’ arms were moving in slow motion and his veins seemed almost to explode out of his biceps that would make Popeye jealous.
According to some spectators Herremans looked like he was in agony while going up the hills.
“Maybe I felt a little like that,” Herremans laughs. “But my face looks always much worse than I feel. You know, for me it’s actually easy; because the hardest part of my life was four years ago. The wind and the hills where hard, but breaking my back was harder!”
Triathlon is the only sport, where disabled athletes race together, in the same event, on the same course and under the same rules as able-bodied athletes

“I left a lot of goals in Lanzarote four years ago. I lost my last life in Lanzarote, and I got a new life in Lanzarote. But my thoughts about the island are now about the Ironman and not about the accident anymore. You know, I could have fell on my head and be dead, but I still can do the Ironman.”
Herremans' positive spirit and his ability to focus on the bright side of life is amazing. As focussed and competitive as he looks during a race, he has a gentle voice and his sensitive and affectionate side becomes obvious when he tells you about his family and his dog or how tears roll over his cheek when he watches his favourite movie “Million Dollar Baby”.

The accident which left Herremans paralysed from the chest down happened just after his impressive sixth place debut at the Ford Ironman World Championship. It happened, on a training ride in Lanzarote. “I was pretty tired while riding down mount Haria. For a second I was not concentrating and didn’t make a turn. I fell off the road and hit with my back a rock.”
It took him only four days before he started to train with weights in the hospital bed, and eight months later he was at the starting line in Hawaii as a wheelchair athlete. “I never had moments after the accident, where I didn’t want to live anymore. Life is too short; you have to move on.
“Talking with Christopher Reeve was a very good experience for me. It gave me the power to look down. I thought, he only can use his head and I still have my arms. You know, it’s all about the way you’re thinking and it’s up to you how you want to think. It’s up to you if you want to look up or down. A lot a people are much worse than me. I try to look at the things I still can do and not at the things I can’t.”
For his preparation, Herremans spent several weeks on Lanzarote with his buddies Dirk Van Gossum and Ironman record holder Luc Van Lierde. Van Gossum, the winner of Ironman Lanzarote in 2000, has been a training partner for several years, and was with Herremans when his accident happened. Van Lierde trained with the two over the winter, and said that helped him find the motivation for Ironman racing again, which showed when he finished sixth at Ironman Lanzarote.
Herremans’ training schedule is pretty much the same as Van Lierde’s.

“Life’s only limitations are the ones we make – its all in the mind and nothing is impossible!”

The "Animal" Ironman Lanzarote 1999 finisher

2010-01-13T08:49:00.000-08:00

The “Animal” Randy Caddel was the first Challenged Athlete there finished Ironman Lanzarote in 1999.
Randy will be remembered for his great and unique spirit, big smile and the disco dance.
Randy finishes 32 seconds before midnight.
On the 25th of February 2005 Caddell was riding on his hand-powered racing bicycle/wheelchair hybrid on the Queen Kaahumanu Highway in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, when a motorist attempting to make a left turn accidentally struck him with her minivan. He was not wearing a helmet, and died a few hours later in the hospital. Caddell is survived by his daughter, Jennifer Caddell, and his girlfriend, Carole Jean Bradburn. R.I.P. MY GOOD FRIEND.

The beginning of IRONMAN by Navy Captain John Collins and wife Judy.

2010-01-11T11:49:00.000-08:00

During an awards banquet in 1977 for an around-the-island running competition, a lively debate broke out as to whether runners or swimmers were more fit. Collins added that he had just read in a magazine that Eddy Merckx, the champion cyclist, was the fittest athlete in the world.

As the good natured debate continued, Collins began playing with the idea of combining the three toughest endurance races on the island into one race. Deciding to seize the moment, he leapt onstage during a band break and half-jokingly made the challenge. He proposed tying the 2.4 mile Waikiki Roughwater Swim with 112 miles of the Around Oahu Bike Race (originally a two-day event and 114 miles), followed by a 26.2 mile run on the same course as the Honolulu Marathon.

“The gun will go off about 7:00 a.m., the clock will keep running and whoever finishes first we’ll call the Ironman,” Collins recalls.

On February 18, 1978, 15 competitors, including Collins, came to the shores of Waikiki to take the Ironman challenge. Prior to racing, each received three sheets of paper listing a few rules and a course description. Handwritten on the last page was this exhortation: “Swim 2.4 miles! Bike 112 miles! Run 26.2 miles! Brag for the rest of your life!”

Collins and 11 others finished the entire course. Gordon Haller, a taxi cab driver and fitness enthusiast, crossed the finish line first in 11 hours, 46 minutes and 58 seconds to become the “original” Ironman. Collins finished the race in a little under 17 hours.

Having lost only $25 on that first race, Collins agreed to organize a second event in 1979. Unfortunately, bad weather postponed the race for a day, and more than half the race-field dropped out; this left only 15 to race for the second straight year. Among the remaining 15 athletes was Lyn Lemaire, a cyclist from Boston, Mass. The first female finisher maintained second place for much of the race before finishing fifth overall. The winning time of 11:15:46 posted by Californian Tom Warren, improved upon Haller’s first-year mark, and Warren became a minor celebrity when he and the race received exposure in Sports Illustrated.

Ironman Hawaii Spirit

2010-01-10T05:12:00.000-08:00

"An unforgettable, and extreamely physical, psychological and spiritual exsperience"

2010-01-09T14:44:00.000-08:00

We breathe - swim - bike - run - enjoy our dreams.

Costa Teguise 2006 XTERRA

2010-01-08T14:48:00.000-08:00

I am here together with my good friend: Jordi González, XTERRA Race Director.

Handcycling in Paradise

2010-01-08T08:14:00.000-08:00

Come and support this new and unique event in Playa Blanca, here you have the real-lifes sports HEROES

Music Marathon Festival 09 Friends

2010-01-07T01:13:00.000-08:00

Just like a pill, the new CD from Nolita James and Charlie Chapman

Music Marathon Festival 09

2010-01-07T00:46:00.000-08:00

Ed Tulipa, Nolita James and Charlie Chapman, from the Start & Finishline big stage.

Wine Run Lanzarote 2009

2010-01-06T01:16:00.000-08:00

Taste of our first edition of Wine Run Lanzarote 09

Say NO to winter blues.

2010-01-05T09:01:00.000-08:00

Blue Canarias is your wise choice.

Jenson Button on Club La Santa December 09

2010-01-04T09:26:00.000-08:00

Kenneth Gasque - Club La Santa, Héctor Férnandez Manchado – Lanzarote Tourist board Director, Jenson Button - Formula One World Champion 09, Luis Arráez – Councillor of Tourism Lanzarote

Garcias Lanzarote - Thank you Lanzarote

2010-01-04T06:41:00.000-08:00

From Pro Athlete Tara Norton, Canada

Music Marathon Festival 09

2010-01-03T03:36:00.001-08:00

Good music and happy people

Music Marathon Festival 09 Promotion

2010-01-03T02:47:00.000-08:00

Promotion for Music Marathon Festival Jeanette, Inez and Cesar by Steve Hunt

Part of my day in Ironman Lanzarote 2009

2010-01-01T13:44:00.000-08:00

Many thanks for this presentation

Club La Santa, Lanzarote

2010-01-01T12:54:00.000-08:00

The place in the sun for the active mind, enjoy

Ironman Lanzarote underwater 2009

2009-12-31T08:58:00.000-08:00

Perfect strokes and smiles on the start of a beautyful long day!

Father of the Century

2009-12-31T01:29:00.000-08:00

Music Marathon Festival 2009

2009-12-30T10:35:00.000-08:00

Adults race start for skaters - runners and walkers

Music Marathon Festival 2009

2009-12-30T10:22:00.000-08:00

Youngest kids skate champion

Ironman Triathlon

2009-12-30T10:14:00.000-08:00

Wine Run Lanzarote 2009

2009-12-30T09:59:00.000-08:00

Age group champion Anna Lis Gasque

Music Marathon Festival 2009

2009-12-30T09:50:00.000-08:00

The Beatles tribute band The Bootles with organizers Anna Lis & Kenneth Gasque

Tourist Awards 2009 Lanzarote...

2009-12-30T09:24:00.000-08:00

Ironman Lanzarote Kenneth Gasque Premios Distinguidos del Turismo

Hawaii running in the sunset

2009-12-30T09:02:00.000-08:00

TRIFRIENDS

Hawaii Ironman Finisher 2005

2009-12-30T08:59:00.000-08:00

Big smiles on the big island Hawaii

Sofienborg Christmas 2009...

2009-12-30T08:49:00.001-08:00

Santa Claus comes to town....