Neroman 2012

My first triathlon of this year should be again like last year the Neroman in Wiesbaden. It is a cross.triathlon with 500m of swimming, 21,4km MTB and 5,4km of running. It was the 3rd time that I participated this triathlon and of course I wanted to reach a better time this year than last time. We started with 500m of swimming in the Opel-pool, which was luckily heated. I did the swim part with a time of 10:07min, but you cannot compare the times of the swimming because at every end of the lane you´ve to swim around a bouy and at the other end, you had to get out of it and jump back into it. So, nothing with some powerful reject from the side wall( I´m really good in it)... I was satisfied with my time, because I wasn´t that knock out after it, like last year. Fastly I grabbed my bike stuff, my bike and went on the bike course and after 53:37min including both changes I made my way up onto the running course. I did the bike course with an average speed o 25km/h, not bad, 3 minutes faster than last year. Finally I was on the running course, but this time I knew, what the course is up to, because I rode it with my bike before, and remarked how steep it is. Finally  it took me 26:42minutes for the run, but I gotta say, the course was 400m longer than last year, which made at leat two minutes and I was only 40 seconds slower than last year. ;-) My overll time was two minutes faster than last year and I ended up on the 6th place overall and 3rd in my age-group. I gotta say special thanks to Uli Scherbaum, who took a look at my car keys during the race and of course fort he nice pictures.  www.ulrichscherbaum.de Doro (Dorothee Richters)

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