![]() ![]() Several of his friends have nearly died on their bicycles in recent years, including one whom he introduced to XC, Nicholas Baddour, the chief executive of the Publicis Groupe in Switzerland, who got tossed over the hood of a car and was lucky to need nothing more serious than eye surgery. His fellow regulars with Ironman XC, which stands for “executive challenge,” a small subcategory of Ironman that caters to high-achieving, time-strapped business executives, call him the hamster, because he’s always spinning on some kind of wheel. Le Jamtel does all his training indoors now. ![]() ![]() He puts an iPad on the floor beneath him, and voilà, he’s watching “John Wick” while he works on his freestyle. In the basement of his house in suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y., from which he commutes to his job in the city as chief risk officer for Natixis Americas, part of a multinational investment firm with $1.25 trillion in assets under management, he has created a miniature Ironman training facility, complete with a Vasa Swim Ergometer, a dry-land simulator that retails for $1,900 and resembles an inverted rowing machine. He says it just like that, too - “I like to watch movies while I swim” - as if it makes sense. Jerome Le Jamtel likes to watch movies while he swims. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. ![]()
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