After our first big highlight of the season, the race covered 70.3 in St. Pölten, were behind us, we will we have to break up the "normal" training routine a little and set us the challenge of Xterra. Instead we have chosen a small race in Sardinia in the mountain village Villacidro. So we flew so on 5 June to Cagliari. There we were picked up by a nice Italian family and we could for a few days the entire program of Italian family life noticed first hand. The weather had initially something to be desired. Then there was that we wanted to look at the route of course and we actually on Felix words: "Yes, the route is feasible, which is exactly right for you!" Have left. When we got to the Xterra star Nicolas Lebrun visited the track and they are anything but "feasible" was released, we got cold feet. As the weather on race day was beautiful but then, blue skies and hot temperatures were to follow all the doubts and we were confident at the start.
Swimming posed no further problems, even if the first failed start something and decided to athletes more or less on your own started. In cycling, we went to a stark passage over stones and sand rivers and a fairly steep hill. At the top you had to down approximately 5 m vertically. How? that was an over leave themselves. After Mignon uphill a little faster than I was, I was then but steep in the slope and down the mountain more courage, we were soon traveling together and decided the final run part that after a 1km flat piece just 1km vertically up and on the other side 1km down again (to run 3 times) to complete jointly and to have fun. The
then we managed pretty well and we were once again a very popular photo object. In the end it turned out so, that we were not that bad and even lay in the Preisraengen. Thus, this trip to Sardinia more than paid off for us.
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