On the next bike training I needed a more fun and recreation training and so I toke the mountain bike. Ok it was fun but it didn’t really work out with the recreation part.

And on friday  it even was worst – I didn’t study my training plan very well and so I made 3 x 5 minutes intervall training on a high pulse level instead of 3 x 3 seconds.

I took this opportunity and participated at a crawl-training from the Triathlonclub Veloatelier Zürich. The training was very interesting and I also learned a lot, although on some exercises I had trouble not to founder.

The week started fairly easy with a nice Bike training with several Sprints.

On the weekend, I wanted to know how long I would take me to swim one kilometer  – I needed 36 minutes which was just about expected. However, I managed only 100 meters in crawl and had to swim the rest swim in breaststroke – there is a lot of needs in technical training.

With the bike I needed to find a new route and found one in direction to Kyburg  – with 560 vertical meters for the entire route it was quite exhausting.

On Tuesday, I did a performance check in running:
How long is it ago that I run in an athletics stadium – my spikes fit me and so it went f the 2000 meters, which I made in about 9 minutes.

On Friday, then again a good two hours run with three “Sprint parts”, so I was ready for a training free weekend.

Only at the two hours run I had quite hard calves towards the end of the run.

The performance on Monday was like expected and not quite as fast as hoped.

On Tuesday I was a little careless in the run training, remained on a sidewalk and crashed – the result a large abrasion at the thigh / bottom.

But on Thursday it was already fine enough to go for the next training.

When I still was active in athletics, we had a coach and were a good group. So there wasn’t any problems with the training program and it wasn’t a big problem to overcome my weaker self.

But now, as I’m training alone, I have to worry about which training sessions will be needed when and to selfmotivate myself again and again.

At the  end, I found a web-based program – 2PEAK – which makes concrete proposals for the training and ajusts them after every training if required, just like a navigation device.

I’ll try the program and will then report my experiences.

This time we even had 9 teams at the starting line.

To be frank it wasn’t so easy to have the 9. team as two participants didn’t show up, only thanks to two spontaneous friends we could complete the team.

This time I hadn’t any problems with the transition and so I started my 40 km race under dry conditions After the half distance it started to drizzle, but fortunately we had some agreable temperatures.

I could ameliorate my time from last year and came in the transition zone after 1:22.33.

As the whole stands under the motto of fun I applied for the running part, but as too many wanted doing the run I switched to the bike.

Finally we had 7 teams together.

At the transition from our swimmer I had some problems as I couldn’t find her and the had to call me over the loudspeakers.

But then finally the race started – the section has only one difficulty, the “Heart Break Hill”, which have to be crested three times. On the way up I wasn’t unhappy to have “only” a mountainbike, but on the way down all the racebikes passed me merciless (which shouldn’t mean that I was faster on the way up), but with the much higher rolling friction I couldn’t hold the push as easy as the others.

At all everything moved quite good and after 1:39.51 I could give the chip to our runner.