My indoor training laboratory….

Living in Hamburg is cool! But: Germany has something which is called „WINTER“. Rain, snow, wind and cold are the normal symptoms of this disease. And I purely have it.

The only way to handle this and cure it is to try and get used to getting up in the dark and going to bed in the dark or even better: going to work in the dark and coming back from work in the dark. I feel a little like a blind mole..!!!



My laboratory



Now what about my training then?!?

I have a “personal training laboratory” called gym. Here I spend up to 1:30 hours on the tread mill (yes… I am nuts!!!) or swim in a 25m pool where I get dizzy from all the tumble turns I need to do when training e.g. 45 minutes continuous crawl.



Tabayesco: 10K climb from 0 to 575m alt.



I must admit that Lanzarote really spoilt me! Thanks to Kim and a few other boys and girls (“Hi” to Franzi) I had a terrific time and even climbed Tabayesco in 28 minute (insiders will know and thanks Nico…) and that with no bike training before at all. Coming back from “The Rock” cost me one whole day as the flight controllers in Spain were on strike!!! I returned to Germany total smacked from just sitting around.

I have announced this before and I am going to post all of you my main objective for the next season but I am waiting hopefully for some good news of Kenneth Gasque, a dear friend of mine who is the race director of the Ironman Lanzarote. No worries: I am not going to race Lanza…!!!

Take care everyone and “see you” says the blind mole….