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Groningen - Behind every picture there are stories. So when I saw the picture in the Timex Catalog yesterday, on of the story came back to me. The shot is from Ironman Arizona last year, but I have never see anybody taking it… It must have been somewhere in the last 175km of the bike leg, since I had a flat in the first 5km. And that is what you see on my back and under my seat. My spare inner tube is hanging from my race suit and my little bag for the extra tubes and CO2 cartridges is tangling under my seat.

It all comes back to me. After crossing the bridge it happened. Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh… And the rim was touching the asphalt. Brake, get off, remove the front wheel, peal the tire off and getting the bag from under the seat. Zipped it open and pulled one of the two tires… It stuck a bit, but then it came out… AND SO DID ALL THE OTHER STUFF IN THERE! Two tire leavers were flying by my head in slow motion. As the other spare tire… The CO2’s were flying in the other direction… And my little valve thingy shot straight up into the air… But in 3 minutes I was back on my bike. The extra tube and CO in the back pocket. The bag tangling under my seat. And getting this amazing shot taking and to end up in the Timex Catalog!