Running at i2S

Running at i2S

Everyone knows the natural benefits of running. Running helps release stress, develop endurance, and is a fountain of youth. Beneficial for the heart, it leads to weight loss, and allows us to develop and tone muscles. This sport also gives us the urge to stop alcohol and tobacco consumption. It favors, amongst other things, the will to push ourselves further and allows for the discovery of unexpected places.

Le running at i2S

Running is in vogue at i2S. Last year, during the first edition of the Bordeaux Métropole Marathon, eleven i2S employees participated and more than double for the new night edition. i2S, is a company that captures and treats images in all conditions, but it is also a nest of runners that are nuts about running. In the context of the preparation of this Girondin metropolitan race, the employees met up between midnight and two to train. The goal: decompress, but also discuss the services, break the ice between colleagues that were a little upset, reinforce the entrepreneurial spirit.

Running is a fashionable sport in the HRD.

marathon de Bordeaux 2016

Running is demonstration of good health for i2S’s collaborators

Why is the popularity of running a blessing for the DRH?

Fabrice Dupuy, commercial engineer at i2S and principle organizer of the marathon, gives us his response.

From the vantage point of sports
consumption of Essec  » A physically active employee has an absentee rate of less than 2% per year and is 12% more productive than a sedentary colleague ».

« The practice is accessible and simple for everybody from a material point of view and purchasing budget. It’s where you want, when you want. Everyone is on the same level without any hierarchy. It’s also a powerful tool for communication. »

The sport is good for team spirit, but also for one’s finances, which the i2S management integrates completely today. How does it approach it?

« She allocated a budget for the two first editions by purchasing outfits and paying each runner’s admission fee to run the marathon ». Also, at i2S, twenty or so employees practice badminton, and some in the organization are considering an inter-divisional tournament. But well-being is also done through yoga or meditation, which some practice assiduously.

Therefore, management naturally supported the development of this sport by the employees, maybe more concretely as to the changes brought by the practice of running at i2S?

« It’s a practice which breaks down the barriers at all levels, there is a different atmosphere among us, it is a conveyor of integration for new arrivals, and frankly, there is also a real camaraderie between us, we are form a sort of family within the family ».

Fabrice, what might be your greatest challenge at i2S after the organization of the two first editions of the Bordeaux Métropole Marathon?

 » We are close to about a third of the people involved. I hope to involve two-thirds not only in the race, but also surrounding the race. I have an urge to: rent a house in the Pyrenees that would be accessible by water, road, paths, in plain language, put together a multi-sport weekend at i2S ».

We can believe, by virtue of our field – imagery – that there is a certain logic to this approach at i2S, but it also consists of putting the company’s values before individual achievements.

 

PORTRAITS OF RUNNERS

Fabrice Dupuy / ingénieur commercial

Fabrice Dupuy, commercial engineer at i2S for 16 years, runner for 10 years to avoid my regular weight gain and helped me quit cigarettes.

Your reputation: for the half, four training sessions per week with a “trail” session on Sunday (long sortie), Monday VMA, Wednesday endurance, and threshold on Friday.

Your craziest race: the winter GRP consists of 20 km with 1500 m in ascending elevation in the snow.

Your equipment: GPS Suunto, Mizuno shoes on road, Salomon on trail, Skins shorts marked i2S

Your best time in a 10, half, and marathon: 39.08 for a 10, 1H27.55 for a half, and this, during this edition, 3H09.08 for the marathon.

An anecdote: I wanted to slow down a group that I was leading for 20 kilometers, but one of the runners asked me not to give up and to accompany him to the finish line. I accelerated and we exploded during the last kilometer.

Pascal Thuilliez / international sales manager

Your preparation: a little too light 😉

Your craziest race: I was passed by a blind person!!

Your equipment: haphazard, glass of water from the organizers, not cool!

Your best time in a 10, half et marathon: it’s my first at 1h47.

An anecdote: shoes too tight, my right calf was going to explode!

Fabien Cleenewerck / Chief happiness officer

Your preparation: take care of my body and to listen to Fabrice Dupuy, our coach for everything.

Your craziest race: that of the Rhune or “Feriascapade” for Dax’s parties.

Your equipment: old Adidas with the i2S outfit, without any connection equipment, just listening to my body.

Your best time in a 10, half, and marathon: 41’ in a 10, and 1H46 in my first half race.

An anecdote: having passed my nephew’s friends during the “Feriascapade”, who are much older than me.

Laurent Virepinte / Production Manager / Supply Chain Team Optronic Devices

Your preparation: since September, two CP trainings per week on average in the context of a Triathlon training. Schematically, one with interval running, the other with jogging for 470 km; breaks every 6/7 weeks but continuing the swimming sessions and biking…Recuperation: 33 cl Heineken.

Your craziest race: nothing unusual… Beyond the Triathlon, I don’t participate in anything other than the Bordeaux Half-Marathon.

Your equipment: Adidas Energy Boost, GPS Garmin 10 watch, the pretty i2S allocation and a layer of Asics compressions.

Your best times in a 10, half and marathon: 48’ / 2 :00 :51 / 5h 20 (nothing crazy!)

An anecdote: no more Marathons!!! In 2007, I found myself in such pain at the of the Medoc Marathon… Repetitive cramps starting from the 32nd kilometer, alternating between running and walking, went to the massage table which did not help much, legs totally paralyzed, limited balance, like being equipped with crazy prosthetics with only a willingness to move forward, slowly, very slowly, too slowly, with only one thought, get to the end… Result: 5h20, more than an hour stretched out in the infirmary before being able to get up. Consequence: an absolute disgust and stoppage of any running during one year and a half and a return to the pleasure of running only 8 years later during the Half-Marathon of Bordeaux.;) That’s enough!

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