I did the preparation for my two last Ironman races with Power & Pace. This was Ironman Switzerland 2022 and the Ironman European Championship Frankfurt 2023. I started the training each time in October of the previous year. Power & Pace target audience are German triathletes and the website and magazine is in German, but […]
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My Ironman Stories. Part 2 European Ironman Championship Roth 1998
Roth was and is still the place to do an Ironman distance race. At present it is a race from the Challenge Family, but in 1998 it was the European Ironman Championship and I really wanted to do it. So after my experience in Switzerland the year before I signed up and got a spot. […]
Race Report Ironman Switzerland Thun 2022
Introduction On July 10 I started at Ironman Switzerland Thun 2022. It was the second edition at this location and was already voted #1 bucket list Ironman race in the world. It took me nearly three years to make it to this start line. In 2020 the race was postponed to 2021 due to Covid […]
Ironman Poland 2021 Nutrition Analysis
To understand what happened on the nutrition side in my Ironman Poland 2021, I’m doing some analysis in this article. Maybe it’s a little bit oversimplified, but I took the calories, which my Garmin Forerunner 935 displayed for this calculations. And I will only consider the calories taken in during the race. With this laid […]
Race Report Ironman Gdynia/Polen 2021
The Race Report for Ironman Gdynia/Polen describes my experience on the day itself and also includes a short review of my preparation with the Tridot training system. Find out more about Tridot in previous posts, https://sportoverfifty.com/the-trainasone-experience/ and https://sportoverfifty.com/ironman-training-with-tridot/ Registration, Race Briefing and Bike check in The registration was in the race village at the marina […]
