A chic pic made with a sick trick | 11.08.2009  |
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| Ferlach | 09.08.2009 |
Made another third place overall in Ferlach yesterday.
Report will follow!
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| Gösselsdorf | 22.07.2009 |
There is a funny thing about triathlon culture in Austria: nobody wants to start
in a drafting race (e.g. the olympic distance at Schwarzlsee next week
got cancelled, since only 30 people registered), but drafting in "ordinary"
races is very common.
As I started in Gösselsdorf last weekend, I found myself - after an average swim
at best - in the middle of a ten men group after T1. As I and another Slovenian
athlete got away during the first few kilometres and nobody could follow, I thought
that I won't see any of these guys again. I was wrong about that..
Our lead after 20km was around 30sec, but the longer the race lasted, the more
common drafting seemed to become. About 3km before T2
the group finally caught us, leaving me pretty demoralized as I saw athletes, who
are obviously weak cyclists, passing me one after another.
Nevertheless I tried to be the first one in T2 and left a bit of a gap to the
others with a fast transition. The run on the other hand felt extremely good and
I caught up 75 seconds to the guy in front of me pretty easily and finished
second overall.
Although I had the fastest run split of the day (and it didn't feel hard at all) I
know, that I definitely have to focus on my swim performance over the next few
weeks.
Triathlon Gösselsdorf
0,55 / 33 / 7,3
1. Rieß Vincent -- 01:18:21
2. Scherwitzl Boris -- 01:21:05
3. Kriegl Flo -- 01:21:29
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| WCS Kitzbühel | 15.07.2009 |
I was able to watch two absolutely amazing races from the new World
Championship Series in Kitzbühel.
Seeing the world elite race at first hand really gives you an idea what
this sport is all about.
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| Regeneration week | 15.07.2009 |
As crazy and strange as it may sound, I think I make most performance
improvements during the regeneration weeks, such as the one I'm having right now.
With the amount of training going down to about 60% and the intensity
decreasing even more, it is the perfect time for my body to regenerate and
get the right feeling back.
Still having two more or less smooth days left, I feel stronger every day and got
my motivation and will back to do some really hard workouts again.
Anyway..
Tomorrow morning I will depart for Kitzbühel, where I will be spending the
weekend watching the highly anticipated World Championship race. It's an
amazing experience to see the world elite performing in an olympic distance event.
For those of you, who can't be there live, I can only recommend the TV coverage
on ORF Sport Plus tomorrow.
My next races will be:
*) Gösselsdorf / sprint distance - 18.07
*) Udine / sprint distance - 26.07 (pool swim, drafting)
Best greetings!
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| Pictures Company Triathlon | 15.07.2009 |
A new gallery is available right here:
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| Company Triathlon | 15.07.2009 |
Failed to defend our title...
(Picture together with the winning team from TTW)
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