triathlon around the world-Plüderhausen-Cape Town-Sydney-Hawaii Plüderhausen!
use Traditionally, many medical students to acquire practical year before the state exam experience and language skills in foreign hospitals. Also
couple Felix and I were able to secure one of the coveted places in Sydney and Cape Town. Of course, was next to stethoscope and white coat the racing bike in the luggage.
end of November 2008, completed all preparations, and it could go off. As it worked out well that in December one of the most exotic of the international triathlon race series on the Thai Holiday island of Phuket will take place and you take this route to Sydney she could not. The 5th Course I could improve not only my travel budget, but also internationally to celebrate a new success.
then headed to Sydney - this time without detours. The expanded working life in Australian hospitals allowed us enough time in the nearby Olympic Park train and take a couple of memorable trips through the vast country.
The sporting highlight was the Australian Championships in mid-February.
especially in swimming, we were astonished as fit as ever and it hard to believe that I was related to the 3 km through the Jervis Bay to the forefront in the field. At the end I ended up in a well-staffed professional field at the 9th Place.
Also four wonderful months at the other end of the world will eventually come to an end. Despite incipient
was homesick on the way back yet, an 8-week trip to Cape Town on the program.
The contrast in Artbeitsalltag could hardly have been greater. Hospital in South Africa means at least for pampered Central European front line - so roll up your sleeves, contribute your own tools and be creative.
We also had to arrange for the first time with the inevitable security measures for sports and leisure. compensated
Off the larger cities of South Africa but with breathtaking scenery and warm hospitality. In the mountain paradise of South Africa was full of mainly Felix at his expense, but I also learned some tough lessons on the singletrack, made rapid progress and soon won my first mountain bike race.
mid-May it is winter at the Cape of Good Hope. No snow, but wet, dark and uncomfortable. All the better for us that it finally went home.
Once there, they said, but continue the same in the Tübingen University Hospital.
Before the big state exam cramming onto a short break for the sport was planned in which I was planning again when Halfironman in Monaco - one of my Favorite race attack.
The International Cycling Week in Germany / Austria, I could again acquire a couple of hard training miles with my father and my father Scarlet and won with the pair time trial and could confirm a third in the race, the mountain climbing skills.
In the bay of Monte Carlo, I made back in the water but first of all notice me. Although I was allowed to start in this race only as a amateur, I sat down in the thick of the fray over a thousand of Starter and pinned me as the only woman on the heels of the top men. As the eighth overall
after swimming, a full two minutes before the first Elite Starterin
I started the long Rise in the Maritime Alps. That there was no longer an amateur long-dominated the first hour of a great Ironman race. In the end I was with a 3rd rewarding place in my class and had me so unexpectedly qualified for the legendary Ironman in Hawaii.
Felix, who had his plane ticket to Hawaii, all sewn together then hit me before my father Petr Vatlach, but try it a try.
five weeks training is not much for the toughest triathlon in the world. Decided we had to work all of us anyway: Scarlet, our father and Felix took turns sparring partner on long trips from Tübingen to Plüderhausen and the Swabian Alb back. "Something like I do not soon," I commented it quite often exhausted ..
A week before the race but then seemed to fit all four of us and we took off to the birthplace of the triathlon.
The race itself was a huge experience for all.
With much respect for the seemingly endless stretch in hot weather and a headwind, it was not expend too early. But I got exhausted after 180 miles and often occur from the wheel
with small steps, first to the first refreshment station and then fight ever, is the motto. Never look too far ahead! The
three workers in the course were after 10 hours at the roadside and no longer fresh. Nevertheless, the Triathlon Vatlach family struggled to speak through the marathon together. After 12 h
29min45s crossed I actually just after nightfall, the most famous finish line in the triathlon. began "Mignon you are an Ironman!"
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