Ironman AUSTRIA

The summer is allways busy with Ironman racing, but where is the summer (cold and rainy). The only thing that reminds about summer is the calendar. Anyway, today is the Ironman Austria and I hope the best for better weather.All the best to Alex Taubert! Wow Alex, I had no idea how old you are. I looked for your racenumber and found your year of birth: 1900. Amazing that you still do Ironman with 107 years of age.
Have a good one.
ALOHA --- Kjell

Klassentreffen 10jähriges

Wahnsinn, nun sind es schon 10 Jahre die wir das Gymnasium Ohmoor verlassen haben. Manja B. hat die Initiative ergriffen und ein Klassentreffen angezettelt:
Ort (unsere Schule): Gymnasium Ohmoor, Sachsenweg 76
Treffpunkt: Gymnasium Ohmoor, Aula
Datum/Uhrzeit: 8.9.2007 / ab 18:00Uhr

ALOHA --- Kjell

Ironman Coeur d'Alene 2007

Just found this on YOUTUBE: Ironman Coeur d'Alene 2007 gets underway!
Look at Paula and the reporter on the beginning, how they freeze. I did aswell!
Back in Hamburg, the weather is cold and rainy, what a summer. Hope for a big weatherchange.
ALOHA --- Kjell

Congratulations to Nicole ...

What a race. To bad, that I wasn´t there. I just saw the Online-Trailer (Hessen TV) and it is amazing. Congratulations to Nicole Leder and Coach Peter.
Happy Training --- Kjell

HANSA ...

I finaly made it to my sister´s (Sinje) horse (Hansa). The plan was that I at least try to ride Hansa, but the rain. Hansa looks great but powerfull, so I don´t know what to think about me beeing on the back and riding Hansa. But with my coach Sinje I will be fine, I hope. That is the picture with the three of us in the rain:
Hope for bette weather.
ALOHA --- Kjell

handle it ...

"If you're handed it you can handle it!"
Another good quote!
ALOHA --- Kjell

WINGS ...

For my last dinner, I decided to have some Wings. We got 30 and my 10 are called "suicide". But honestly, they where tasty but not to spicy. Or maybe I´m so used to spices. Have look:

Ironman GERMANY

Today is the IRONMAN GERMANY! Good luck to everyone. But for sure to:
- Nicole LEDER # 55
- Nicole TÖPFER # 59
- Iris TIEDEKEN # 61
- Henning MOHR # 1682
- Nobuyuki TANAKA # 1772 ("GAMBATE - JOE")
- Petr VABROUSEK # 11 (my racenumber from Ironman CDA!!!)
- Hubert HAMMERL # 13
- Uwe WIDMANN # 4
- Lothar LEDER # 8
... hope I forgot nobody!
Have a great race, I will sit in the plain back home.
ALOHA Kjell

Nothing to do, so ...

Well this project was set on paper for weeks. And now I finaly pushed myself to start it. Got up early to at lest finish most of it. Deb wanted some small vegetable patches in her back yard. Rob (Denise´s husband - Deb´s sister) helped with all the planing and material-list. THANKS!!! After a couple of hours outside and a sour back (again - had that in the Ironman big time), I´m done and Deb is happy. So a WIN WIN Situation. Next time when I´m back, I´m looking in foward to have home-grown Salad and herbs. Go for it!
Have a fun day and a good rest for all the Ironman Germany Athlets.
ALOHA --- Kjell

i´m not parking ...

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places." [Author unknown]
Drive safely - Aloha --- Kjell

Ironman Coeur d´Alene ...

Check this: Ironman Coeur d´Alene!
Hope you all like it.
ALOHA --- Kjell

Relaxation, need to ...

"Relaxation techniques are used by people who wish to relax, for a wide variety of reasons. Since the 1960s, research has indicated strong correlations between stress levels and physical and emotional health. Meditation was among the first relaxation techniques shown to have a measurable effect on stress reduction. In the 1970s, self-help books teaching relaxation techniques began to appear on bestsellers lists. [1] In 1975, The Relaxation Response by Harvard Medical School professor Herbert Benson, MD and Miriam Z. Klipper was published. Their book has been credited with popularizing meditation in the United States." [source: Wikipedia] ... but it´s not easy.
Relax - ALOHA --- Kjell

THANK you

The race didn´t turned out, what I expected. I mean my performance, but have a look what I found ...
ALOHA --- Kjell

I´m not complaining or looking for excuses ...

... but the swiming felt, beeing in the bearing sea (so cold and wavy).
... on the bike I never had a moment where I warmed up. I was allways cold. So my musels where hard and then my lower back started to hurt realy bad. After a while I had no feeling anymore in my back. It effected my paddeling, so my splits where getting slowlier and slowlier.
... the runningpart was to warm up before the finish. The second half on the Marathon was faster than the first. It took me maybe 10k to get into my running feeling.
Here are the Pro results. Place 19 from 19 finisher, GRR!
Swim - 01:07:21
Bike - 05:29:20
Run - 03:23:11
Total - 10:03:51
Here a picture from the swimstart, more on Ironmanlive!
Happy day --- Kjell

Ironman Coeur d'Alene - LIVE ...

CHECK the race online and follow me (Nr. 11): IRONMANLIVE! Or the Livestream (Online-TV)!
Have a relaxing Sunday, I will work hard.
All the best and thanks to everyone for the support!
ALOHA --- Kjell

Beautiful Coeur d`Alene ... racepreview

This is a nice pre-race Trailer. Have a look!
Ironman Coeur d´Alene Trailer
Wish me luck, good legs, mental power and just a fun day!
ALOHA --- Kjell

Greetings from Japan ...

Got this picture from Mijako. Berit (english/german teacher) took this picture with her german students and sended it to me. Thank you:
ALOHA --- Kjell

Helmet-problems, but ...

At the Pro-Race-Briefing I found out that my Aerohelmet is not approved for this event. The missing Sticker to be a CPSC certified helmet, wasn´t there. Not on this brand. To bad and now? I talked to a few people and I accually got some nice answers, but no real solution. So I started to look on the Expo and asked someone at a bike place for a helmet. They don´t have any, but he knew someone. So I finaly met Marc Lauzon from TriBike Transport and he had one. He gave it to me for the race right away. Thanks and you should check his idea, the TriBike Transport is a great thing!
... the Carboloading was fun and all the other stuff, too! Now I put my feet up and focus on Sunday. I´m ready.
ALOHA --- Kjell

Winning - Losing ...

"The opposite of winning isn't losing. It's quitting." [Martha Rosett Lutz]
Thanks Sandy for sending me this quote!
Happy running - ALOHA Kjell

THANK you ...

The race is getting closer and I wanna thank you everyone who helped and supported me on the way to IDAHO. It was a long day with good training (thanks Peter), my Sponsor-support (check: IronHamburger), friends (Sandy Thank you so much for everything!!!) and of course my familie here in Alexandria. I stayed here for a couple weeks and it was allot of fun beeing with you and getting ready. Thank´s Deb, Scott, Ali, Bailey-Riese and Hannah:
Have a fun day.
ALOHA --- Kjell