Category: Ironman

• My First Olympic Triathlon Distance

  

  1700m of swimming, 40km of biking and a 10km run. I have done these distances, individually, multiple times. It so happened that Germany is currently experiencing an unreal heatwave and we started our race at 39degrees Celsius, or 92Fahrenheit, at 1pm in the afternoon. The Swim Downstream on the Main, this swim was fun. Not…

  franziskaschwarzmann

  August 10, 2018

  Ironman, Neues von Tooi, Social Pressure

• Ironman Training Log – The Power of Tests

  When I first talked to my coach Michael Krell, he told me that I would have to do tests in all three disciplines: A 400m swimtest, 7x 1km running starting from a low heart rate to a high heartrate and, eventually, a bike test. The first set of swimming and running tests was pretty sobering. Not…

  franziskaschwarzmann

  February 13, 2018

  English Version, Ironman

  70.3, Biking, challenges, Half-Ironman, IM

• Oh, January

  January is a hard to deal with month for me. I might also face a couple of intimidating thoughts right at this time and blaming the one month that usually motivates people to eat healthier, smoke less and work out more. Oh, well. Training Log I am not sure if I have announced it on…

  franziskaschwarzmann

  January 18, 2018

  Connecting Worlds, English Version, Ironman, Neues von Tooi

  70.3, Bridezilla, Half-Ironman, IM, my first triathlon, Triathlon, Wedding