While I suffered on a ligament rupture in my ankle joint, I were able to do my very first triathlon this year in july.

My physiotherapist and a spezial preventiy strenght training helped me not to loose that much of my spirit. While the water temperatures were around 15degrees, noone really wanted to warm up.

The finish-line, right in front of us, the other side of the lake, someone were brave enough to warm up a little bit.

Right after the start you had to find soon your position in the peleton.

anf than…just straight up to the other side, one´s across the Tegernsee…

In the trainsition area, you were a lucky men, when you memorized before, where your bike kept waiting for you…

What followed, was my best disciplin of all three, with the 3rd best overall riding time, I moved forward to the 16th place...

Soon after the changed to run, you had to find your own way to run very quickly…

The following 10k run were real burdensome, because of the heavy rainfalls in the days before. The rain simply let go of the running track. The organizer called it a cross-country-run, which the triathletes had to cope with. I felt really lucky the last meters to the finish-line were on a compact trail along the lake. I had a good run today and so I was able to gain another two places and moved up the 14th place.

Swim 1500m 27:22,57
Bike 40km 1:03:55,22
Run 10km 45:35,24
Final: 2:20:00,44

Age-group: 4.place,Overall: 14.place

Thanks a lot and many greetings,

Daniel Rithammer