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Recap 18/13 – Fuel your grit machine
I´m gonna post early this week. Up ahead lie the Easter holidays and we’ll be visiting the grandmas with our daughter. She just started to walk. She just did it, it happened so fast! About a week between stumbling two steps into daddy’s arm to walking on her own. Crazy. But you are not here…
Reflections of an Adult-Onset Swimmer
If you’ve followed this blog for while you’ve probably noticed two things about my swims: I’ve never considered it my strength, but I am doing relatively well. Like most triathletes I’ve had a difficult relationship with swimming from the beginning. I’ve never really swum. I learned to not drown as a kid, I’ve spent endless…
In Between Seasons – Improving My Biking
For a while now I’ve been feeling kinda stuck between seasons. My 2018 racing season is pretty much over, but it’ll be quite a while before I can properly kick off the next season. I haven’t decided on my race schedule and ambitions for 2019 yet, but unless I’ll do another ridiculously expensive overseas race…
Run This Town – Bucharest
Business trips rarely leave much space for running. You land, meet, eat, sleep too little, and fly back out again. But if you’re lucky, there’s a small window — half an hour between obligations — to see a city on foot. Bucharest was one of those windows. A loud, layered city with heavy history, unexpected…
When your plans for the season become obsolete
Back in my mountainbike downhill days, Bruce Lee was a big inspiration for many riders. You all know the famous quote about how water become the cup it gets poured into. Translated to MTB DHI racing it meant to go with the terrain, not trying to force anything but rather playing off the trail. You…
Ironman Hamburg 2018
Finally the big day has come! Not entirely as expected though. On our way to Hamburg the news hit that the swim would be canceled due to high concentrations of blue and green algae and be replaced by a 6k warm up run. Bit of a bummer that my first ever long distance triathlon would…