Triathlon

Olympic-distance Triathlon (triathlon.de)

1.5km swim · 40km bike · 10km run

Local season opener with triathlon.de.

Half-Ironman 70.3

1.9km swim · 90km bike · 21km run

First Half-Ironman. Four screws in the arm. Done.

Olympic-distance Triathlon (triathlon.de)

1.5km swim · 40km bike · 10km run

Back for round two. Same start line, faster legs.

Half-Ironman 70.3

1.9km swim · 90km bike · 21km run

Second 70.3. Stronger swim, smarter bike, calmer head.

Half Marathon

21.1km road

First pure-running race. No bike to hide behind.

The Break

Normal Tuesday football with colleagues. One bad tackle, one snap. Broken elbow, four screws. Couldn't lift a coffee cup for months. Couldn't type properly. Definitely couldn't swim.

The Stupid Goal

Tired of excuses. Set a goal: swim 1500m by December. With metal in my arm. Zero swimming experience. Just because I was done waiting for things to be perfect.

1500m Done

Every stroke was awkward. Progress was painfully slow. But December came and I did the 1500m. Wasn't pretty, wasn't fast. But it was done.

First Half-Ironman

Started 2024 with the Olympic-distance triathlon in Landshut with triathlon.de. First race, first finish. Then went bigger: first Half-Ironman in Erkner.

Finish line, Erkner, 2024

Doubling Down

A second Half-Ironman, this time in Poznan, Poland. Olympic-distance triathlon again in Landshut with triathlon.de. And my first half marathon in Munich. No more first-timer luck. Just showing up, year after year.

The detective story

Nausea, low energy, weeks of feeling off. Blood tests, stool tests. Nothing. Months of looking. Eventually a colonoscopy and endoscopy with biopsies caught it: H. pylori. Antibiotic treatment now.

Recovering

Antibiotics done, body slowly coming back. Taking it one small goal at a time. Marathon des Sables is still the dream. We'll see if it gets realistic.