summer 2020 no competitions at all - strategies

Meanwhile, as of that corona, virus, almost all competitons in endurance sports had been cancelled. Both professionals and amateurs in affairs of triathlon, having trained months for mega-events, needed to make alter strategy and are confronted with similar challenges.

In normal times it are the amateurs, that build the basis of the pyramid that is the carrier for the professionals onto the top. While professionals are payed for performance, theses days amateurs might lack motivation. Especially in spring, when the top-form is going to be shaped by intervall-training and so-called monster-training-units, like 130 Kilometers on bike and 25k run nonstop after in order to get fit for 226k-race in Frankfurt, Hamburg or on the Hawaiin Islands. All the letter competitions had been delayed, competitons of other labels had been cancelled. This has to do with the new, American, owner of the company, that had been sold to the Chinese in 2015 for 650 Million of US dollars. Now, the stock holders are from the West Coast and do invest in internet, communication and it-solutions like this, but bought IRONMAN for 730 Million of US Dollars. It´s coming home, like insiders said. Or is it vice versa? The professionals are fed up but the amateurs are motivated as of the Pros cannot perform and the amateurs feel like always, do swim, bike and run for fun?

Difficult affairs need smart solutions. Instead of travelling by mountainbike I bought a gravel-bike for this year. 

Competitons, both core values like fixed on this blog [1] and visions of the sport are needed to survive the crisis. What to do if customers do not buy a new time trial bike? Well, rather easy. If one does love our sports and has fun, one might like to buy a new bike nevertherless. If one does for the purposes pf posing, showing of bikes as status symbols, well, this year isn't a good opportunity. There won't be photos from the finish onto red carpets, no cameras on the bike-course or swim-exit, too.

Meanwhile it is June and extent and intensity of training has been reduced systematically. Having had a lot of work and paperwork in May I am looking forward to cycling in summer. Hopefully some competitions in the 3rd discipline, a 10k run or a half-marathon, can be conducted in autum.

Last year I went to th South by bike (Athens) im summer, this year I go North, having Sweden on the list. May be Greta T, has time for a cyclist from Bavaria for an autograph-lesson.

[1] https://3athletisches-und-triathletisches.blogspot.com/2013/05/grundwerte-des-triathlonsports.html

golden year has been cancelled

Meanwhile all events in endurance-sports concerning triathlon had been cancelled. There is no Collins-Cup, no Olympic Games, no Ironman in Hamburg and Frankfurt had been delayed. If Ironman on Hawaii can take place is a big question. Team Bahrain members, professionals, keep on tri-ing, like e.g. Jan Frodeno does indoor-ironman at home or Alistar Brownlee collects miles for social purposes, too. Me, as an amateur, not having trained for Kona Big Island, I do not.

A-priority competition, the Ostseeman, has been cancelled and all the other events, too. There is only a sprint-distance left that still has status go. However,  0,3 - 20 -5 kilometers are not the same than 3,8 - 180,2 -42,2 kilometers. What to do? Keep on training? In Bavaria outdoor-sports as a single athlets or groups in two are allowed. After having done seven ironman-distances and together with PROs in relay having fought the clock sub9 (8:59:35 h min sec) in Roth 2016 for me it is time set new goals. The Ostseeman was planned to be a milestone in order make qualification in 2021 for ironman on Hawaii. Motivation based on military ranking in order to compete with participants from the special forces. Moreover as part of the team located in the Arabic culture and a lot of money having set, like in 2014, when such a delegation was in Nuremberg for business having watched Challenge Roth in their leizure time, well, for 2020 this was all for nothing and contracting ended last week, when I was allowed to and retreated from this sponsoring by such a billionaires. This has to do with the crash of  PS752, too, that changed priorities anyway in January. Moreover, there will not be any further investigation of those two eurofighters of the German military lost at the Ostsee last year in 2019. And especially as of last year I took a high risk ride by bike  through the Balkans, having had MAD (the internal German military secret service) as my companion. Misson was partly succsessful. Norhtern Marcedonia is within the NATO now, but not so Serbia. This does all sound crazy, I know. To be honest, there was no time for being crazed at all. For me, almost 20 years after 9/11 and gotten hooked up within the last millenium, now it looks like corona-catastrophee brought peace. What to do as of this affairs? If you are interested in check search the web for the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) and a B-weapon specialist` in the rank of a Lt. Cmdr. report as of what happened in Wuhan. Me, I'm too old, meanwhile that Corona Crisis is a good opprtunity to close that blog.

If you are interessted in this my whole personal desaster 3athletisches & 3athletisches can tell you. It had been analysed by think-tank of German special command forces. Nowadays, and with that Pandemia, these things there are not part of the agenda anymore.

However, endurance- and multi-sports are more than competition. It is rather a good philosophy than can bring you through life despite all things one is hooked up to.

This is where you might find me: somewhere among or on those Jurassic Sea's stones.

The last words are dedicated to my benefactor, who made me split by using power and knowledge. He liked to say: It is nice to be important, but is more important to be nice.

 As of visions & values (and thus backup):

"On the path of deception we will prevail."

CCC - Corona Crisis Cup

This kind of flu called corona like the mexiacan beer also affected sports, sport-events and triathlon-competitions. Three of my six registered races had been cancelled and delayed.

Therefore some activists called for CCC, that is not Chaos Computer Club, an organisation initiated by hackers to show facilites and services lacks in security-systems, e.g. in atomic power plants the last millenium. By the way, nowadays, some of those hackers had been hired and do work for the German secret service for foreign affairs called Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). The BND and its manpower works from abroad and does inform the government for the purpose to pass through analysis to the German gov to propperly estimate foreign affairs. The CCC- Corona Crisis Cup has nothing to do with that. As of competitions in May had been cancelled, most of them, participants collect miles on bike.

Micho collecting miles for CCC - here at Franconian Switzerland an area in Northern Bavaria. 

As of my A-priority competition is going to be launched in August systematical training makes sence over that. However, indoor-pools are closed and lakes' water-temperatures are too cold for swim-training-units. No need to indulge! Moreover I am lucky as of Challenge Roth, IRONMAN Frankfurt and IRONMAN Hamburg, the three mega-events within Germany in affairs of triathlon, had been cancelled, but not so  OSTSEEMAN (OM) I do take part along the 226k this year, that is shedulded later in the season. May be it has to do as of some soldiers esp. those of special forces do compete there for military ranking. Click here to get fetch impressions: https://www.ostseeman.de .

Above all happy Eastern to all of us & keep on tri-ing!