Last Sunday we went to Witten in Dortmund again high here in terms of triathlon, it was the first Sparkassen-triathlon City and becoming the 5th Competition of the North BuLi on the plan. We had set ourselves as a team the task of improving the overall placement of the table again bissl and were therefore once more highly motivated at the start. For me it was the first time that I have completed a WK this form. For it was not a race starts and then it was over, but two.
Because of our position in the overall table, we made it as the 8th just in the first heat which should already start at 10am and as "normal" triathlon of 300m swim - 9 km cycle - 3km run was completed. Since this swimming in a specially held from France delivered pool, this was another first. Unfortunately it was not as promised, showed a real pool, but rather a pool, which is served by no later than 70cm x 70cm large wooden boards for the turnaround. It is this board is replaced at our track after 150m and could only by the courageous capture of two aid workers are held in position. The driving wheel was then on a partial demanding 1.6 km bike leg. It was for us, but no "incidents".
The subsequent course proved to be again very tiring and hard. Since it is a 600m round negotiated, which was run through 5 times and includes a small, but eventually painful pitch. At the end of the 1st Race I was in 20th second Kamenzer again. Before me was only Philip Bahlke ranked 12th, followed by Michael Voss # 24 and Andre Jost on the 30th, Frank Reimann, the first part of the day ended on the 48th Place.
caused a brief scare André after the finish. When he realized he had to swim the heel cut pretty deep on 2cm length and moved it to visit the hospital Witten to be. Fortunately, no need to sew and thus He stood for another start available.
were for the second race, which was played as a team competition, now the fastest of the four individual times of each team are added and subtracted from the time of the winning team. This revealed that the team ASICS Witten to Olympic starter C. Prochnow with a lead of about 10 minutes on us as a fifth and 7min to 2nd at the start was and was prevented only by the victory would be a total failure. We had 1:25 min on the fourth and the sixth residue 55sek. Advantage. But even though we showed a very good team performance, it remained in the placement and eighth Place in the overall table. Moved up are thus the team of the PV-T Witten for men and by women from the TriTeam Wurzen.
This also would be the last event of the 2nd Bundesliga Nord made in 2008 and thus ends a very turbulent season. I personally do not have my season objectives to fulfill completely, but the team's performance, especially in the last Economic Committee shows that the result of the '07 season was not a runaway. Because due to our shock at the WK in Hannover, we have the way made unnecessarily difficult.
Some pictures will follow soon!
is in the near future first break and relax on the program. Let's see what this results.
Until then!
Greetings Dirk