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| Bernd Hagen & Frank Neumann - more pictures on www.lirdy.com |
Wow, what an eventful day! A total of 12 of my athletes were in Roth or Frankfurt yesterday. The results are to be proud of:
Stefan (10:04 am / Roth) and Frank (11:00 am / Frankfurt) ran their first long distance ever and can be extremely satisfied with themselves in both competitions despite the tough conditions. I always am!
Andi improved his time in Roth significantly by over 20 minutes to 10:03 hours. He was annoyed about the three unnecessary minutes, but this year the wind on the bike course was unusually strong, which also explains the slower times in general. Ingo was visibly bruised and whenever I saw him, he had to go. Nonetheless, he bit his way through and finished in 10:24. And that's the main thing in every race.
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| Frank in Frankfurt - an anaphor 😉 |
Robert and Michael were up almost the same in Frankfurt and were able to cross the finish mat after 9:28 and 9:29 respectively. Both are therefore more than an hour faster than last time. Saucool !! Things went really well for Stephan too. In Roth, he improved his old best time by almost half an hour and was able to cross the finish line in a great time of 9:41 despite an injury that condemned him to a 6 week break before the race.
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| Marco on the far left |
At the same time, Marco secured the Ironman European Championship title in Frankfurt (age group 35-39) in 9:08 (32nd overall), thus fulfilling his long-cherished dream of participating in Hawaii.
Stefan (9:24), Dani (9:27) and Michael (9:38) secured the German championship title in the team in Roth, although Michael in particular suffered badly in the end. But his strength of will helped the team to the unexpected title. Congratulations to all three, very strong !!
Franky improved his old LD best time by over an hour to 8:42 hours, and was thus able to book 18th place overall in Roth and from now on can call himself “ETU European Champion” in his AK. With this result he left a lot of professionals behind and came in 2nd amateur. Congratulations on a clean performance !!
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Last but not least, I would of course not want to suppress Helmut, who already took part in Regensburg and completed his first long distance. In 11:02 he finished his freestyle, because the competition itself is just unwinding the performance that you have built up over the months of preparation.
And the trainer krelli is completely knocked out from all the support and cheering and needs a day of regeneration 🙂
nice start to the week!
krelli
PS: Pictures here: https://www.lirdy.com/event/show/902941053
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