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Tenby (Wales, United Kingdom) - At four in the morning the alarm went, starting the regular ritual to get ready for the start at 7AM. Automatic pilot mode ON! Shower, breakfast, coffee, making drinks, off to transit, fixing everything on the bike and transit bags, walking to the swim start, taking some photos, putting on the wetsuit, doing a warm up swim. And then it got bright in the sky. Race day had arrived. So there we were. Roughly 1500 triathletes on the beach. Ten minutes before the start. Trembling to go. Adrenaline speeding through our veins. Heart rate approaching race speed. Ready for the adventure that lay ahead of us.
The wrap up of Ironman Wales 2011 (Tenby, United Kingdom). What a day… What a day…
Final video before racing tomorrow. A snapshot of transit where everybody is getting ready for the big day tomorrow.
Tenby (United Kingdom, Wales) - There are 12 hours left before I get up tomorrow morning. And I am ready! Ready to face, race and fight the Welsh Dragon. The bike is in transit, the bags are in place. The body is filled with energy. And the mind is set. What remains is counting down the hours. The worst hours of them all. Waiting for all that lies ahead of us. Waiting for the unknown… Waiting for what the Dragon will throw at us…
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.
Klagenfurt (Austria) - I really have no clue where to start this blog. I am still flabbergasted by the result of race day and I guess it will be like that for a while. It feels so unbelievably great to be back on track (yes, there is still work to do), that I am still running on pure adrenaline and the euphoric feeling that took me by surprise.
So where to start… Well… I dunno! There is just too much to tell and too much happened during the race. Okay, I will stick to the order of the race and start from there and bring it to the finish in 9:04:14!
Groningen - Back home… Home after two weeks at the island Lanzarote and finishing the Ironman. Home with the cats and Hilde. It feels great to be back, but at the same time I feel a bit sad because time really flew the last two weeks. Lanzarote is a magical place and really did it’s magic on me.
Before heading to Lanzarote everything was clear in my mind. Two weeks of training to get back on track. And as dessert the Ironman the last Saturday of those two weeks. With the injuries I have had, the race would be no more than another training set and to see where I would be in my process to get ready for the second half of the season. Enjoying the race and experimenting with some things. It all went a bit different….
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