It’s ready in two weeks – competition!
Photo: dpa/Stefan Sauer
Two more weeks! Then it goes into the fight! And slowly the unrest increases for me: How will it become Fehmarn when I run as one of about 200 starters into the Baltic Sea and on the side of the 750-meter triangle course that needs to be swimmed twice? And then I swing on the bike to trample the 43-kilometer course between the beach, Sahrensdorf and Meschendorf? How heavy will the legs be when we run up and down the beach promenade to the IFA Hotel and Fehmare swimming pool for the delight of around 1000 spectators, a total of 10 kilometers?
Also in our training group, which is actually only a WhatsApp group, before we all compete for the first time on September 14th under the team name Tribalistas Berlin, there is a certain unrest. In which tent place do we camp now? Did you see, there is a bathing cap? There is an overtaking ban on the bike path section! And read the tender exactly who touches your bike before he has the helmet on his head gets a time penalty!
Trial training
Photo: ND
ND editor Jirka Grahl tries something new, at the start of triathlon. 1500 m swimming, 43 km bike, 10 km run. On September 14th. is a competition premiere: at Fehmarn triathlon.
Anyone who studies the rules more precisely suspects how complex the processes are when a total of 600 people compete at different distances. Where is parked, where is the equipment? Where is the start number accommodated in accordance with the standard, where the transponder picked up for time measurements? O, Là, Là: A triathlon competition is much more than swimming, cycling, running.
In the meantime, my trainer Marcel Obersteller also creates a little tension: all training sessions are planned by the competition. And unlike hoped, only one day of rest is there: next Monday I will be able to “fully refuel”, but has to do an hour of long stretching with fascia roll. After training at least five times a week, I’m really looking forward to it. On the other hand, I am amazed at how quickly you can get used to doing at least one hour of sports every day. It’s even fun, nanu?
Meanwhile, the bad news increases in the WhatsApp group »Team Fehmarn«. My friend Steffen, with whom I had disconnected the triathlon idea, relegated the racing bike over the radiator hood of an oncoming car last week. He’s going quite well so far, but he will not be able to complete the Olympic distance after he was running away from me during running training. And Felix, the other tribalistas co-founder, also canceled, like my friend Björn: The time to train was not enough. Paul, who only spontaneously joined us three weeks ago, is already out: “For reasons”. But next year they all want to be there!
The registrations of these ambitious tribalists now expire unless there is still someone in the editorial team or among the readers. Just write me! I get you a bathing cap!
All trial training columns:
Part 1: How does triathlon work?
Part 2: Stand in the rain
Part 3: The little ones
Part 4: naked in happiness (54)
Part 5: The man with the plan
Part 6: In the bar rush
Part 7: Vacation in top form
Part 8: waves and miracle glasses
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