GIANT step ahead….

SMILE...!!!

So… this is it: my way to have a fast bike ride during my races of the season. The GIANT Trinity added with my ZIPP wheels. It weighs less than 8 kg and looks really fast. I have had GIANT bikes for some while now and always have been able to achieve very good results. But this is the peak to it. Thanks to GIANT for the support! 

Toys for boys

I have not yet ridden on it but I will test it on Saturday. The forecast says good weather and sun for Hamburg so no better conditions I can ask for. My training says to do a 110 km intensive ride so don’t wonder if you see me around Hamburg hammering with my disc wheel. Afterwards I can tell you if the Trinity is as perfect as I think it is…! And I will have some pics: “El maestro con la maquina”.

The reason for such “stupid” training in the beginning of April is that I will be racing the Fuerteventura Challenge being 1,9 k swim – 90 k bike – 21 k run on the 30^th April. Jörg (a good friend of mine who lives on Fuerte) has already warned me about the hard bike and run course. I hope I am well prepared but my home work has been really good.

Fuerte is going to be part of my Lanzarote training weeks. I will be doing lots of sessions on my favourite island and I am also looking forward meeting Kenneth, the race director of Ironman Lanzarote who has done so much for triathlon sport on Lanzarote (also big compliments to his team).

So everybody: keep the spirits high and always keep your goals in mind.  



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“Hasta la pasta”…

Nu Shooz….

Time is ticking by and I am doing my homework: swimming in the early mornings, biking as often as I can (mostly on the week ends) and running lots of Ks.

When I look at my road map to the Ironman Frankfurt, I should be able to swim 2000m in 29 minutes, do 80 Ks with an 34 km/h average and run 23 Ks in 1:30:00 H by now. Well, the news is that I am well ahead of these targets. My biking surprises me the most and I had an awesome ride last week.

The toll you pay for training is that your material gets wasted: my running shoes died yesterday after averaging 80 Ks per week in the last half year. They are now resting in peace together with the house hold trash of others.

Now here is a little more of my plans for the next months: I will be doing the Challenge of Fuerteventura (1,9 swim – 90 bike – 21 run) as warm up for the season. My intention is to do a solid race without going at top speed. I have not been able to do much intense training here in Germany so I’d better not try things I don’t have under control.

The first “real” race will be the Volcano on Lanzarote (Olympic distance). I have done this race several times and love it: lot’s of people I know and lots of top athletes as well. This one will be “die or fly” for me….!

By the way: thanks Lenni, Fränkie, Mareike (Bein Godek), Britta (you’ll be back stronger that before!), Kim (Oakleys are the best) and a few others for inspiring me so much. Achieving high goals is always a matter of the right “ping pong” partners…

Hasta pronto…