Biography
My name is Bastin Jeltema and I have been located in Krakow, Southern Poland for the last 10+ years however, I am native Dutch. I am a very active athlete and sport is my biggest passion in life. In terms of communication I am very Dutch and am very direct. I have played many sports in my life and like most people in The Netherlands I got my first swimming lessons at the age of around 5 at School. The last 4 years, my main focus is on Triathlon and my favorite discipline is Swimming.
I am a certified running coach and as such I have trained 10k runners becoming Marathoners. For a year now I have been an Oceanman Open water coach and in my first year I have trained a newby to open water swimming for the Bosphorus Cross-Continental swim and am currently working to prepare a couple of swimmers for Marathon swims. Besides being a Running and Open water coach, I am currently also working on my Ironman coach papers which I expect to have by the end of 2024.
As an athlete myself I have finished multiple Ironmans (Incl. Celtman, Blacklake and Swedeman, Xtri World Tour races), half Ironmans and olympic distances. Notable swims were during Celtman: Water temperatures of 12-15 degrees and full of jellyfish and during Blacklake: Night swim with a crossing of a rocky section from 1 lake to another. I have participated as well in Oceanman Cattolica and Ibiza. I ran a couple of marathons and a lot of races with distances varying between 1 and 40km. In the coming 3 years I will swim the English channel (2027) and Ultra Oceanman Palermo (2025) as well as some Ironman’s, Swimrun and Trail running.
What really interests me the most while coaching is to see people getting stronger, faster and smoother in what they are doing. I love to see people taking off 10 – 20 seconds of their 100m time. I love to see dedication and hard work by each individual to achieve their goals. Seeing a person breaking a new distance record or putting in a PR, makes me proud and happy.
I am very happy to be an Oceanman Open Water Coach and am really looking forward to working with you!
Technical Details
Level
bronze
bronze
Country
Netherlands
Netherlands
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