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Pirate
3rd place age-group 


29th Internationaler Allgäu Triathlon Olymp Immenstadt / Allgäu at 23.07.`11 
1500m  swim,
42km  bike,
10km run


Hope is last to die, and I was quiet confident on the evening before, that the weather forecast might told a lie, when they told something about bad weather today.
But they were true and it came: hard, more hard and more…

The first thing to do was to wrap your bike for the next day.

I haven´t even thought about building up my tent, and slept in my car.


Right in the middle of summer, was today, the coldest day we had here in Bavaria this summer. What does it mean, more than 50 starters didn´t even appear, because the temperatures were around 8degrees at 8:00o´clock in the morning, and when you got into the 16degrees warm water, you had to catch your breath.


Not only the cold temperatures were the only enemies for the triathletes as well the wind, the upcoming rain and the waves, made it really hard for the triathletes to absolve the 1500m of swim.


While it rained cats and dogs you started on the hilly bike course, after getting started on the first 2,5km, came the first ascent with 14%, which was really hard. Some of the participants had to push their bikes the way up on the last meters. Than the course became very hilly, with a constant up and down and pouring rain until the last 7km long ascent with 8-10% ascent up to Diepholz, and this ascent was long like chewing gum and on the following downhill part you weren´t able to ride fast, because of the large water ponds on the streets and 10% of the starters gave up on the bike course.


Becauce of the weather conditions, I didn´t wait for the winner ceremony. Instead of this, I headed up for a hot shower. But the organizer sent me my medal home, for my 3rd place in my age-group.


Conclusion: A really nice contest, very well organized and the scenery is really beautiful, with a really ambitious bike course, sadly very bad weather conditions.

Place AG   Overall time    swim  1st change    bike       2nd change          run                          
3        2:34:04     0:27:57   4:19    17.   1:17:34        2:05     19.00:42:09


Greetings, Daniel   

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