back in aero

Today time came to do really sport again, first time for summer 2024, since 31st of July 2024 to 10th of June 2025, like no endurance sports for 320 days. Haha, hard! But still, from the level of fitness possible to do today 2-3 hours with a heart beat at 174 at the maximum, uphill. And also from the perspective and process of regneration of substance in the right shoulder, spine and muscles around the torso to do so: back in aero, moreover.  but for mental health like I need to come back! Doctors said it is not possible to ride on racing-bike before 12m. Thus, looks all okay after 8m.

Never give up! Uphill to TV tower on mtb. photo IPhoneDEluca

So actually the German navy is right, I could have been competed this year in August. Thanks again to OstseeMan for delay from 2025 226k competition to 226. Lets analyse why. Well, 1k in the water my time is 19:47 sec last week, that is 20 min x 3,86 lets say 1:20 h min. T1 is 5 min okay, then we are at 1:25 hrs min. Lets check the bike data of today.

Not a 45k loop, but 58k, I needed 02:40:00 h min sec at 410m elevation by heart rate of 144 average.

And okay then lets keep it simple. 22,0 km/h at average makes along 180,2 k makes 8hrs altogether. Right? As of slicks and 23mm instead of 28mm, 8bar in the tyres and not so 3,5 like today, and as of a little less elevation. Okay? Okay then, lets keep 8 hrs for the bike split and 1:30 hrs for the swim-split, that makes 09:30 hrs arrival for T2. The cut is 10:00 hrs. So I would have time 6 hours for marathon a fast pace walking that is 7 km/h. My time along 10k recently on single trail was 59:47 min sec in the forrest along 9,46k. Lets say 10k 1 hour flat on asphalt. Corrected due to lenght -  x4,66, that is the factor to calculate form 10k to 42k, lets say multiplied with 5, okay? right....- thus I would need 5 hours for marathon to run. This makes a time 226k at Glücksburg sub15 hrs possible. Not to bad for someone said to sit in wheel-chair - along 226k swim bike run nonstop. 

For sure health is more important than speed 100%, but German military was right 100%, too. And that combination radiates a typically situation of Trimichi. So I have had to complain to get my one and only sausage extra. But hey, time to beat is 12:19 h min 226k from 2022. So let's wait till 2026, please. And let me try to be sub12h! 

Keep you posted. 

 

2 miles - test = done (boker tov!)

Shabbath Shalom, 

Michael Lorenz, *74, ran 8 rounds and 18 metres, exactly 2 miles, today, at 4:55 min/k. To be contiuned. To be improved...

meassurement by sigma: 00:15:44,73. Last lap = 400 +18 metrs 418mtrs: 00:01:57,0.

five rivers bicycle track 288k - 5d with cargo loader

Packed on Sunday, I started on Monday for 5 days in the very early sping's heat. With up to 29°C on Wednesday, 1st of May was hot, too, got a sunburn the last day on Friday als I cycled in shorts, only, and did not care about all those ebikers dressed up like professional cyclists as a racers ready to win the Tour de France in any situation against any competiotor, esp, it was full of ebikers at on Thursday, at crossings and brigdes pathways that e-traffic reminded me to Piccadilly Circus in London, in a hurry to be and see Trafalger Squere, Nelson's Column, Tower Brigde and Buckingham Palace, the is here in transfer five rivers trail the Channel Rhine-Maine-Danube, the monestaries, castles and mountains and moreover beergardens, like Kloster Weltenburg (not in the pictures Hall of Liberty / Befreiungshalle, too). Thus, imagine crowds of drunked ebikers... - on 1st of May as of strong beers this time of the year first serverd, and me in shorts only, but sober-minded as a one and only contrast. Rather easy to make the crowds on wheels believe I came from very far. Like from Varna e.g..

Thus, with a pace of 15 km/h in average over all five days I sat 4 hrs daily in the saddle, made 60k a day, but sure having had to build up tent and cooker, and looking for safe place over night outdoors as of wild pigs, forresters, hunters and the police, thus I asked the locals, like you can see on 2nd picture I was allowed officially by Germany aristocracy to camp in front of the Castle the is said to be the origin of the Nibelung (ring of the Nibelung). 

A cargo ship in the Danube closely to Ratisbourgh. Camping spot found at a bench closely to the river, German aristocracy permitted.

 

F-16 fighter jet type new falcon above me on the brigde, right the moment of selfie mage with Ewen Maddon, D.C. (interior), we both hold back from bombing with all four sidewinders 2x2 left and right wing (Diehl Defence/USAF Europe), next time I voluntarily jump off before.

Rainbow-warrior dancing on tour and while physical exercise and training.

So it was a great trip and I feel like no pain in my back. Before, while and after. So this is really good and a basis for to build up on until I can sit on racing bike again for longer. Sure, saddle on mountainbike is lower and handlebars higher. But: cargo loader was up to 30 kilogramm, with Spaghetti and canned food, beer and water in, and for sure, two fleece pullovers as of nights had been cold. A simple cooker helps inside a propper good tent. But be careful.

Here the link to tour with map: Fünf Flüsse – ein Genuss - Fünf-Flüsse-Radweg in Bayern . All in all as a gravelbiker, bikebacker and hiker I can recommend mountainbike with cargo loader. It saves time in packing and unpacking, reduces worries as of huger loads possible. The mind is easier, less focussed by slow pace, no dedciation to task needed as of 60k a day is easy to do, thus enough time to twaddle with motorbikers, ebikers, cyclists, hikers, tourits, pilgrims, hosts, fishermen, rescue-units, policemen, the military as well, just common people, old, medium and young, poor and rich and go for silence to enjoy being in one of the plenty of the beergardens, for beer, of course. But not on 1st of May. sure.

Franconian dune way - 2d 85k with tent

Having been out with 10 kilogramms for 40 and 45 kilometres it feels like it is stable no pain. In legs and feet as of that endurance adventure being on my feet for eight and nine hours. This here is the link to the trail: Fränkischer Dünenweg - Tourismusverband Franken

And these are some pictures from here, Franconia (Germany) in its romantical valleys. The first picture shows my lightweight tent, 1,7 kilos, with light from inside by Lupine Lightning Systems, some villages' lights ahead.

With a little fantasy one might think of Utah. Military good hipp-belt I transported beer, and phone, wallet and compass, lights, power-bench and map. Besides a sleeping-back I used Therma-Rest-Uberlite, 280g, the most light underlaying. Its comfortable and not noisy what is often said, and does isolate coldness from the ground very propperly. Therefore my Sea-To-Summit III is cheap trash expensively sold, too. Luckily a second thick fleece pullover from Quechua was with me. Night was cold closely to minus, but days 22° - 25°C plus. In April. 

Soon, some more 30 to 40 years it all looks like in Utah? Like 2000000 years ago, when Earth was a mere desert as of carbodioxites. We will all die. There is no surviver. The question is of death does change in its meaning, when we all have to go by our all own flaws and we do know that. 

So we will know how it goes? Me, not so. Those after me. But see what comes next. A 100+ k hike within three days? As for competition I could do, but really, it takes time, happy having gotten donated a new life.

like nothing ever happened

Dear readers,

today first run training-unit, 5x800m, for 8 1/5 monthes, since 30th of July 2024. Pace 6:40 / k. A long road to Gluecksburg. Posing, porn and triathlon - not yet. But volleyball 400m - track before and after. Brave, hard work to do! 

Yoga, gymnastik, even volleyball all good for triathlon, beach volley is popular in Tel Aviv, Israel. In Germany, here at the area of Nuremberg, beach volleyball is very popular, me with students in the picture.

Like those pioneers did, who founded and started to build TLV-Yafo in the mere desert 116yrs ago, at 11th of April 1909.  Not Hawaii, not surfin', but sun, white sand and the spirit of hang loose around and multisport.

Many regards, esp. to readers from the holy country that is Israel.

Shabbat Shalom.

the impossible ahead

Dear readers,

welcome back on here. Ty for you and attention. That is from the time of the founders in our sport, valid for World Champions like Faris Al-Sultan, Normann Stadtler, valid for all, motivation at its purest! 

Who am I??? I am a champion! (click picture for greatest speech ever)

Last week surgeons let me out, free, and like before I am on my own, but allowed to do any training until it hurts. We are finished, doctors said. And now the what about fellow man. First they said it is important to go out (December), to leave domicil, then aristocracy argued I can start and do win paralympics (January). Second, I trained with ex-PROs concerning swimming and was seen as a competitor and then, rival even, again (February) and now, it is like always, thus thrid, I am an IRONMAN and endurance athlete. But with new focus: just finish 226k instead of being fast at 226k.

Well, it is not easy to fight wheel-chair. I went out walking short distances, with little weights, like brining little trash of glas to recycling spot. Then I carried more heavy bags at home from supermarket and did exercises with weights at home. Push-up and sit-up followed. My belly became slim again after all the antibiotics. Weight drainded. Muscles got connected again, right arm and back. Then I went out for hiking, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 Kilometers. Then I went hiking with heavy back-back, 5, 10, 15 kilometers. Meanwhile swim-training is like before, three times a week, and cardio I can do by moutainbike 5, 10, 25 kilometers, too, with cargo-loader, e.g. I cycled next craftsman-market in order to buy a new deckchair and back with it 25 kilometers.

What is next?

Keeping slow pace, and continuity: world does reveal its marvels (here: fire salamander in the woods).

Next is to do start run-training. I already did a first unit, 1 kilometer barefeet on the tracks of high-school, very slow, not at any pain. Next is continuing gymnastics, stabilisation and working with weights cubic centimetre for cubic centimetre. Forward. Next are back-backing tours, uphill by feet, in the valley by mountainbike with cargo-loader. Next is to fight back to racing position on bike millimetre for millimetre. Next is good food, but beers also. Good old times in triathlon like doing the best at your personal challenge, but do not do self optimize like in business - or becoming a mere machine in our sports, like Jan Frodeno said recently about the youngers in our sports - but what my generation of triathletes knew from the founders and ancetors of our sports: hang loose.

My challenge is to compete 226k OstseeMan Glücksburg in August 2026. And rightly so. We will see, I have go for half-distance, but now, last week, doctors let me go, without any advices.

sometimes reality is stranger than fiction - fishing thrumps triathlon

Dear readers and dear Sirs, hello to from here to all over the globe,

actually showing off is hooked to triathlon. Thus, when there is no triathlon, there is no showing-off? At least on this blog.

Surgeons saved my shoulder by two operations, and my spine by another two operations. The likelihood to die and the likelihood to sit in a wheel-chair - those who know me know my jokes as of wheel-chair hooked to age - put together is 70%. 30% survive without wheel-chair, but need 1-2 years to recover. Well, after those four operations within 21d I had to take antibiotics for full six weeks until the day before my 50th birthday. 

After 2-3 monthes I can walk 20k and swim 1,5k in between. Biking is still forbidden, but it is said I can do cycling again. 

So 14th of NOV was the first day without, but another two weeks of mere hell had been ahead in order to wait if the bacteria outbreaks again. Did not. Thank God and all his angels. Recapitulation of the frame: I got feaver the day the triathlon competitions (f and m) in Paris took place late in July/1st of August along olympic distance. By the way: the German team - with Laura Lindemann in the fourth "leg" and her world famous, fast and furious sprint to the very end -won the mixed relay competiton in Paris and got the golden medal 5th of August. 

Thus, 4 month after triathlon in the Frech Capital I was said to be healthy again, yes. I am. And now? Damages? The bacteria ate substance in the shoulder, spine's disc substance, too. Moreover, even German top doctors did not know where it stem from at first, and how it came in and where it came from. I do not know either? At least, I do not care anymore.

And I disbelieve in conspiracy. 

Kind regards to ISRAMAN. Lets see who is guilty? No need. If something like this happens, death, accident or in my situation bacterial infection, and no one and nothing is found to be reasonable, then, of course, it was the Mossad. ;)

Now there is a true new challenge. 

Because OSTSEEMAN Triathlon wrote me the day before my birthday, 13th of NOV the day I took my last antibiotics at 1:400 (Berlin time ) and asked me if I would like to postpone my start in Glücksburg. I would like to, I replied by e-mail also. To start in 2026 226k, but not so in 2025. It is not impossible the next year, but I really need time in order to get fit and fitter again. And especially after that infection and hospital, well, after four month of inactivity in swim, bike, run - it needs time to prepare for triathlon. Ty OM for that option by the way. 

Well, presently we have peace in Germany. But in Israel, not so. One day I come to Israel. And if so, for middle-distance. As of the profile, sure. Eilat isn't Glücksburg, neither Eilat has flat race courses (3300 metres of elevation the bike split full distance) nor Glücksburg (1100 metres of elevation the bike course only), while Eilat is a downhill race the first 13km the last discipline while Glücksburg is a uphill and downhill race (+ and - 400 metres of elevation).

The most hard triathlon isn't Nice (2550 mtrs the bike split up and down) - I did in 2019 at 44° C thus I know what I am talking about and thus a famous General called the desert-fox if alive would be proud of me - and it isn't Hawaii, no! It is ISRAMAN in Eilat. 

Like always, we will see how it goes. I guess OM is possible within 16 hrs in the masters class, not so IM. With straw hat. And with pink race suit, of course. ;)

Let's better go fishing. 

A change of the paradigm?

Dear readers, dear followers all over the globe, dear Sirs, 

first of all let me mention of this blog and my home-page: www.michael-lorenz.com/wp is listed in the United States of America (USA) said to ne aa unsecure domain. Second, the German_gov is using my sites' contents "in order to regain values and prestige in the international internet to stabilize Germany's position in the world wide web [e.g. of security, stability and safety INT]". Is it mere bs on here or what is it? What about values in the internet? Like cheating, faking, lying, distortion, stealing IDs by eagerness, envy and big Ego - for heaven's sake - for equality of course? But where is the counterpart like authenticity, selective authenticity, truth, sportmanship, competition, concurrence, courage, discipline and fairplay? On here? What and where are the rules in the Internet? Dirceted by MI? Or what? Everthing is allowed, but nothing is possible? Likewise a fat, unemployed human that is a moviestar that climbed on the top, Mt. Everest for sure, and for what, as of no MIMIMI, equal rights and justice? For sure? For sure such a person has to slide all the way down like the man did on his own crap and shitted on the houses' roof for that purpose before. What a long tracks of shit! To copy style is allowed, and really, suckers are plenty, too many that it seems like copying is the only true art, besides of the profound production of mere bull shit, nowadays, in the internet.

Thus, 3rd, those who can read are in the advantage. Likewise fathers - here in Germany it is fathers' day today and all men hike around with lot of beer - and sons, uncles, auntys, mothers and daugthers, dear triathetes, Ironmen, managers, consulters, athletes, bureaucrates, business-men, stock holders and so fourth here in Europe, especially in Germany, sure but also in France, or Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland and Austria and so fourth, but also transatlantic and transpacific, in the United States and Autralia, Canada, South Afrika and Guadeloupe, Cambridge, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, no matter where, this is still Trimichi, a cosmopolitan, just like Jenny, but Michi from the block.

Well, we all had had to undego a great development in our sports, that is widely known in develpement in constructions especially in areodynamics, but also in races' sizes and formats, like e.g. mixed-sprint relay became popular on TV or the latest great success of the company of IRONMAN having splitted the world championships in a two year circle (Nice and Hawaii). 

 

This is the most best advanced developement. Helmet (an not so Hamlet ... :D) has white slats on its surface in order to create minimized laminar flow resistance.

Hello again also to those, who switched of and returned to a new area, an area of triathlon without the internet. In America it is slowtwitch, here it was 3athlon (namegiver of this blog, but not only) and then the triathlon-scene page, most biggest internet-communities in Europe and most of activity by an amout of 15000 members. But what for? Having found a true challange in international research at university, at Hagen, the German top university likewise Harvard is in America, approved by representatives of the German Association for Psychology (DGP), that is the aquivalent of the American Psychological Association (APA), well, what to do? Let´s make a pilots single choice question out of it, the solution is the motiv on the last picture. Like triathlon research is open for anyone. Anyone can do, everything is possible.

Thus, what the hell should someone do if both a triathlete and researcher (or a student in his best years)?

A) follow the dictum of the b3-rule, of course: bicylcle, bed and bathroon. In order to be easy, creativ and innovative, relaxed and powerful, sober-minded and slept well.

B) using "posing, porn and triathlon", the dictum of old school values and interests, as of ideas are ideas, but stuff has to be sold like time-trial suits, helmets, shoes, nutrinations and all the merchandizing has to be balanced and, instead of the English dress code might indicate like a suit sells sex sells even more to the stock exchange holders balance is fine.

C) Well, well: do the the letters LMAA tell you anything? L..k my arse of you all? Is this familar to you, isn't it?

Here we go as of core values of triathlon are not posing, showing off, or likewise suits and sex sells! Likewise a peacocks feathers that look excellent but make the animal unable to fly. So what is it, meanwhile, as of the internet? A big circus of hens and roosters making "gag gag gag" and "kikeriki" all night long? Just forget, the community is fed like "foreign feathers do not grow back." To finish a 10k-run in 55 Minutes with all that stuff like Garmin-watch, compression socks, gore-tex, functional wear etc. pp. is not having finished a swim bike run - competition 226k, is it? Woe betide you! Suckers, imitators and foolowers! Kind regards to Russia by the way, Moskau, St. Pete and Novo. As well as to the Pinas, or in China, Columbia and California, Chihuahua and even Michoachan - not so Acapulco and Cuba - where all the smartphoners (handy is short for handcarchief) use triathlon and sport applications (long word for the short word app, like "app app app" coming from apes behaviour like "gag gag gag" coming from hens') are spread like virus' outbreak, are located, too. So where is Kai Baumgartner, Arne & Jörn Dyck or Dan Empsfield with a true Kikeriki! Or an Ahihihiaaah! Where? 

Arrrgghhhhh! See you in training and competitions? Or what? Multiple choice question with X solutions out of three? Is it all correct? Are it? Or is there a fourth the correct answer? Like a syaing for e.g. like

D) home f..king is killing prostitution like drafting is share hold the value?

 

 

 

 Of course, not so. E is the true answer: hang lose.

No matter how no matter where, remember when you started, think of all who need assistance and guidance, help and support, like the most best things are 4 free, e.g. the internet. Above all, do not forget what is most important: life. 

Bye.

 

Sweet home Bavaria...- where the skies are so blue & white.

 

Time came, time went by and me? Still there? Still there. Well, all I can say is that I am a triathlete.

Having found a true home in Germany in the South, Bavaria, especially Franconia is ideal for endurance sports. Having left all that business' behind it is time to get busy in affairs of triathlon, is it? Like so many retired. To find fun in hobby again? 

Here you can go running in summer and skiing in winter.

Anyway, it are strange times and it is not of disadvantage to be be fit, swim bike run. May be I do install after-burner into my bike below the saddle, hyrdogen-tank in the frame. ;) 

Hopefully I can report about sport again the next posts the blog was constructed and made for in its origin. Thus, a fifth value hasto be added, imho:

5. Triathlon clears your brain of everyday worries and the thoughts of monetary monsters.

Sincerely in sports and with finest regards to the sport.

Bye.

 

at special disposal

Well now, 

having found my peace, academic degree, challenges in life and sport after, adventures, too, and being glad to know having good, few friends here in Germany, happily healthy, and rather fit both bodily and physically, financially independend and almost recovered from injury, I can live in secured poverty as a 49 yrs old male. 

Take a close look! 

There are two main-trends in Germany. First, many people of my age are ready, ready to die. That doesn't mean they seek death, but they are satisfied with life and if death comes tomorrow they do not mind. Life in Germany became hard for Germans, cold, almost no warmth, robotlike. More and more, thus Germans are not used to such a kind of life having very little gladness in life, only, like Americans are used to since the middle of the 90ties at the latest. Second, a huge amount of people this country here does start writing books. Stories that stem from life, memoirs, others simply do start write about a little truth they found out, even more, by putting these three, experience, knowledge and truth together.

 

 Do I have to look like a robot telling the truth?

 

Do I? No. Not so. No, I don't.

No need to write books or work like hell in order to live robotlike like so many do transatlantic. Not only. Even in Spain, nowadays. And for what? Money, status-symbols, recognition in order to show prove of being wealthy like somehow like: Hey there and look! Have a look at my new electric car! E.g.. Sorry, this is hooked to stone-age, and me, as an academic, as a graduated psychologist it is easy to make this prove. We do not need to show off in order to present and defend our self and thus place in the social hierarchy, we do not need "to breed", reproduction and offspring, and most tricky, we do not need all that human pettiness. No need! To show off being sexy and status and to prove being someone special in affairs of individuality is style like 10000 years in the past but being put to the world wide web (internet) moreover. Puh! This really sucks. What to do? Well, actually I wanted to travel around the world. To leave that human pettiness, let's call it like this, all behind.  Having found a good home here in Germany, I feel like I never have done a triathlon. Having found peace it is like to start at zero. In affairs of triathlon. Let's see what season brings triathlon-boom after? Triathlon became expensive. Inflation is hard to overcome. Maybe I have to give 'em a lesson by low-budget thrumbs luxury? 

Well, there is something new a third category of people here in Germany. Those, who totally deny anything: total objectors. And rigthly so. No need to engage in jobs to finance weapons and weapon industries, lno need to go abroad for other peoples' advantages and wallets, no need for huge consum as of climate-catastrophee, but low-budget. 

When Thomas Hellriegel won the IRONMAN world-championships on Hawaii 1997 the first time as a German and military champion, Normann Stadler and Faris Al-Sultan followed, and when Sebastian Kienle 17 years later did so, too, Jan Frodeno and Patrick Lange followed, well, after 17 years on tri, me, who started swim bike run in 2006, today, anno 2024 I can understand champions' wordings, despite of the fact of never being fast enough to start and make good result on Big Island. But Nice.

Much more better than to follow that the two new mega-trends in society and all that mind-sets does sound the following:

1. It is a privilege to do triathlon (Tom Hellriegel). 

 

2. Triathlon is the most hardest way of easy living (Sebi Kienle). 

 

3. You can't buy happiness, but you can do triathlon and that is even much more better (the unknown triathlete).

 

Living in America you might like to add a 4th saying, nowadays in Germany as well? 

 

4. Triathlon is a post-apocalyptical survival skill. 

 

For sure, it is. We will see how it comes. Of course it isn't of disadvantage to be fit and Baltic Sea Man ahead this year in 2024, long-distance competition, not only open for policemen, soldiers of any kind of weapons' category (SF e.g.) and for civillians, too, ty. 

Anyway:

 Do not worry America - the moon is always above you.

 

Sure, life is hard, esp. if one needs to be fit in order to be fit for being fit nuclear strike after. ;)

season cancelled - sabbatical ahead

Having had to cancel ISRAMAN as of injury and the flu, now I had had some troubles again and needed to be checked in affairs of health, mentally as well. All fine, but this took time again and for what to push oneself to the edge? As an amateur. What for? Sport ought to make fun. And military discipline in training and competition is something else.

 

Out of service.

Meanwhile, aged 48, it dosen't make sence to compete for the podium this year in AG45-49. Next year much more better the AG50-54 first time. Transfere slot OSTSEEMAN was successfully from this to next year 226k in Glücksburg. Thus, time for feet up, time to recharge batteries, time for unforced training or a sabbatical like triathletes say.

More over bicycles became status symbols, bike wear is more important than performance, how funny, and bike-packing become mainstream, unfortunatelly. Sure I am a triathlete, for 15 years meanwhile, having finished eight IRONMAN-competitions, Roth, Frankfurt, Züri and even Nice, but how do I look? Neither I do offend myself a carbon gravel-bike for 6000 bucks, nor I look alike Tour de France - starter with time trial helmet sitting on a heavy electro-bike even. 

So for the next year I go for the podium, a ranking within 1-3 in Glücksburg the Age-Group of 50-54. And as of the mainstream, well, ok, this is just ok, bike-packing and ebiking, but really, good for peoples' health and self-eestem. Hard to look like a mainstreamler, but what to do? Just let them. Leave people like they are.

Looking forward to training and competition the season 2024!