Finally weather was cloudy, rather cold for summer with 16°C, a little rainy, but idea and the plan stood. What to do? Go! However, we got exhausted the first day and had to quit after having marched 65k plus backpack. Along the "Franconia Jungle" path, called Paul Pfinzing path, way and a route, the cartographer from the region aministered by aristocrats of the region eastwards of Nuremberg is dedicated to, so he did, scale territory, hills, landscaps, towns, castles, relief, valleys, fields and thus the how to of the how, how to connect best having created maps and images by his own hands' drawings. Andreas and me followed his marks, traces and profil.
Good friend leading after two hard climbs along Fraconian hill-top's trees.
Castle in Reichenschwand, very famous, hosted by aristocrates academy and hotel affiliated.
Actually we wanted to make it all 120k three days, with a backpack of 6000g each, to look what Israeli Army Soldiers have to do in their training, that is the same, 120k to go within three days nonstop. My peek was 115k within two days, all out maximum, but without any loads two years ago, after the police got me, because of alcohol I got penalty, had to leave the car and was allowed to go, yes, having had some few cash in my pocket left. However, it was too late for taking a train, as I missed the last one at 1:700 o'clock, and a taxi I did not want to take this area for few kilometres only as of few cash. Thus I started walking, and continued, developed a challenge out of it to walk home from fishing at a river closely to the higher Bavarian mountains, made 115k nonstop within 17 hours plus 4hrs rest in the night, that time. Meanwhile all the penality points put onto my driving licence is deleted, fine was high, sure, and has to, however, hahaha, how funny, I do no afford a car myself anymore. How comes? Life-style is the answer in abstract new ecological paradigm (NEP) verus anthropocentrism. In words of content: Americans say of losers only go by bus, while Mexicans say of winners go by bus. Likewise in America they don't pee in the pool, but in Mexico, well, they dont swim in those. How comes? Do not use our toilet, we do not pee in your pool either?
Anyway, without training, two days to push through is okay, and us, Andreas and me could have reached 100k with loadings... - but what for, especially when weather turned into hard rain.
The only support the first 45k - a filling-station in a villiage in between the two climbs.
What this all has to do with triathlon? We are. Both. Triathletes. For a life time. Being on the courses for 20+ years. It might come a time to compete again, but truly, time of peek-perfomances seems to be over, and cultural aspects of triathlon-life, born onto Hawaii, that includes travelling, too, nature and history, likewise, as of friendly habits, rules and rites of local populations do enrich life instead of a full focus onto that well-known mantra: SWIM BIKE RUN EAT SLEEP REPEAT. There might come a time, probably next year, to put fitness on the test again in military championate for me, as a mascotte or motivater in pink racing-dress wearing straw-head. Or as a true triathlet with an annual budget of 1000 instead of 10000 bucks.
Triathlon crux is mixture of both easiness and hardship but the same time. It is hang-loose with discipline. It is the most hardest way of easy living. It is said to be a privilegue. It is a ticket to impeccability, a walk along the abyss in life, because no one would do freely and must be tricked to do so? Marketing does. Trick you. The spirit is spoiled, profit invaded that field. And there is no one left to tell the codex. Not even me. The next generation must find it out their own way and if, it must come by itself. It is like the lineage is broken the thrid generation of triathletes after (1. 1979-1985 question mark; 2. star 1985-2005; 3. cash cow 2005 to 2020; 4. poor dog, 2020 - ...) .
What is a "poor dog" among developers and insiders? A magnet for the crowds like gladiators put in a stadion. Thus, inventors became silent and also on here, it is just a descripiton onto the surface. No explanation! See? Plainly spoken one might say of the magic happens outside of one's comfort-zone. But how, just one hint split into three - can magic happen, when a) everyone is in-group, otherwise we are not all equal, right, even by the usage of electric bicycles, and b) performance is in front of 300000 spectators, like this year in Franconia with Sam Laidlow did win the CHALLANGE 226k in Roth? It is hard to see of everyone is and extrem-sportsman as of that thinking by being just a part of to be, denying reality and effort, as a helper, a referee or a spectator e.g., and in order to use both transfer and contrast for the purpose of polarisation - for a sharp, falcon bird's eye analysis it is reliable, valid and thus rational and reasonable means, a logical tool and therefore objective by comparison - alike going onto mountain peek by cable car wearing outdoor clothes of label and therefore is the same like hiking, thus if so, nowadays, well: anyone can do 226k e.g. with making big breaks in between the run-split, or by the usage of eBicycles, and air-bumpers in the wet-suit having created an own "race" without competitors, having finsiehd an Ironman. Right? If so, I am a 1200+ times IRONMAN 226k and claim that WORLD RECORD from Jonas Deichman, a 120 226k-Finisher... moreover, as he never had had any competitors. Just joking folks. ... JJ
Thus, c), where does the last stage of reasonable sport, that is TRIATHLON 226k going, before it turns into extremsport, move to? Ultra-trail and gravel-bike stage races are new and latest trends. Like speed climbing is. Sure, Faris Al-Sultan, an IRONMAN among the few, he ran uphill and rocky in Abu Dhabi, like XTERRA World Championate and world tour is a true insider tip. Formats, Materials, human borders are exhausted and explored, as of Deichmann did likewise did Messner, the famous mountaineer and Alpinist, but on flat terrain, in development and performance. Once again: where does it go?
No one knows! No one there to tell? No one. Probably Moses was the first and only, who found insight the mountain of Sinai, when God revealed the ten commandments to him.
Well, we two, we have an appointment with "Pfinzing", Part II, after we ended up the railway station in Hartmannshof 1,5 d after.
