On holiday

The last two weeks i was on holiday in denmark. Hence i spend only a few hours in triathlon training. No swimmung, 2h of running and 3 1/2h of biking.
On sunday i had a mountainbike-marathon in south-east of germany. 100km and 2700m up and down in 5:50h. My best time. But after 70km i thought of stopping the race as i was so out of power i never was before. But then i thought of the ironman next year with the consequence of not finishing an ironman ever with such an mental attitude. so i did the full race and as every year without any big training in the mountains or on the street.
at the end i got place 250 out of 340. last year place 92 out of 172 (but with another 100 biker not finishing due to cold and rainy weather... all milksops)

As i'm still out of power after the mtb-marathon an the weekend i plan to do nothing this week - only let my body stabilize.

Last week another nice article was in spiegel.de. There is something written about a fat boy in school that could not stand with all the people saying that he's a "Mondgesicht" (moonface). So he worked hard to finish an ironman. He had nine months of time and he finished with nice 14:56h. I think very good with his premises. But i plan to be below 12:00h. and i will. hähä!

And i found another person in the blogspot community that plans to finish an ironman: http://226thomas.blogspot.com/
and
http://www.mh-nbg.de/wordpress/