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!

Injury: Israman cancelled, Baltic Sea Man (OstseeMan) ahead

 

Having had to cancel triathlon-competion in Eilat, Israel, late in January, now I am fit again and ready for to focus training onto OstseeMan (OM), swim bike run yes, but early in August in Germany, German Mastery in Glücksburg again. 

 

 

Germany: German mastery 2022 - one can see me in the last row at the start - this year again.

 

 

Big ty to both EL AL and orga-team of Israman especially for the money refounds - due to a rather servere flu and overcoming pain in my shoulder (technical defect rear gears, uphill, gears broke, fell into the back wheel, fell off onto my shoulder, walked to railway-station in cold rain, had to wait, took the train, rather full of people, and got sick, only laying one and a half weeks in the horizontal was possible, no training for 3,5 weeks at all!), well, weather became partly better. 

 

Thus, training on bike is possible again, swimming, too, and by this "opportunity" macrocycle in training I did switch from European rhythm to Hawaii'ian system, with begin of training 1st of January in the sheets and sheduls (time tables) - and not like before with 1st Monday in November by a 50k bicycle-ride (like Miguel Idurain did). Furthermore, as of a two month shift of the start of the new season from 11th to 1st month of the season, well, for what to fly to the Canaries if training on bicycle can be done at home on warm days? Pictures shows training in the year of 2017 on Fuerteventura, Espania in April and on Lanzarote eight days each,all inclusive slightly below 1000 EUR. And today? Having had a focus on the third discipline. Outdoors, of course.

 

 

Training on the Canaris 2017 on Fuerteventura on MTBs together with a good friend

Training on the Canaris on Lanzarote 2019, here in functional wear hiking across the Island

 

 

 Picture in training the year of 2023 at home, Bavaria, Germany, on racing-bike.

 

Having done a lot of run-training, test races are scheduled in Kallmuenz (21, 095 k in April and 1,5 - 42 - 10k in May; Rothsee-Triathlon not yet registered. ) in preperation for main triathlon-competition in August 226k race OstseeMan (Gluecksburg). Last year I was ranked 128th. This year at German mastery a Top-100 result is possible? Will be tough! 

 

Race-list complete like the following, as a liscensed athlete this year again at dtu ERDINGER aktiv TEAM:

C - prio / April 15th: 21,098k Kallmünz full half-marathon

B - prio / May 27th: short-distance 1,5 -42-10 k in Kallmünz

C - prio / June 11th: 2,00 k swim at and in Brombachspeichersee

B - prio / July 9th - sprint-distance 0,3 - 20 -5 k in Hersbruck [1]

(Middlefranconian Championships this year)

A - prio / the week-end of  August 6th/7th OstseeMan full-distance 3,86 - 180,2 - 42,195 k in Glücksburg (German Mastery in military, police & DTU [German Triathlon Union])

further, if on demand:  Moritzberglauf, KLK Landkreislauf/Relay, Leiburger Kirwalauf, Laufer Altstadtfestlauf (in May and in June)

 

 

 

Have fun in training and competition and RACE HARD.

 

[1] race last year (4 min movie), nice to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqWYDTtSUL0&t=189s

just mere pictures from German Mastery '22 (swim bike run 226k)

 

swim exit after 3,86k in salty water

water temp 19,2°C air even colder

bike set-up: Zipp 808 and Cosmic Carbon 404

180,2k time trail on a nice 4 loops course

grapping nutrination at 3rd loop on bike

"Hello photographer, hello camera."

42,195k marathon to do (1st loop out of 6) 

Here I come rock you like a hurricane! 

Few steps to go? But on red carpet.  

Looking forward to see you all next year again. 

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