I want to officially welcome everybody to my new site www.christophschwarz.at which is the upgrade to my former website trichrisschwarz.wordpress.com (which is by the way outdated).
The only thing that has changed is that all new entries are going to be available both in English and German.
At this point I want to apologise that I haven’t got the time yet to write an English version for all of my old posts. I will write the missing ones within the next weeks.
Enjoy reading!
After a short consultion of the coach I managed it to change the schedule and did a great tour on the hill in the north of Graz. Just the wind was a little bit disturbing!
Ich wünsche hiermit allen ein gutes neues Jahr und einen guten Rutsch!
I wish all of you a happy New Year!
¡Prospero año nuevo a todos!
Results: http://www.zeitnehmung.at/html/newCMS/results/1155.pdf
A few weeks have gone by since my last posting meanwhile winter/autumn has arrived. Anyway some news have to be given to you. Not only that the preparation for the next season has started but also some other news I have to tell.
First I want to announce that a friend and I are going to make a training camp in Mallorca for 9 days at the end of March. The plan is to get some more kilometres on the bike early in the new season. This might be a good decision because my first season highlight is also very early (Ironman 70.3 Austria in St. Pölten).
Further I can pronounce that my bike now has a power meter.
This and the fact that I finally got new triathlon bike (Mavic Helium Tri) shoes should help me to increase speed and power during trainings and races.
Future investments will be two pairs of new running shoes, a bike computer and a suitcase for my bike to get it safely from Graz to Mallorca.
It was very hard within the last 24h including way too little time of sleep as well as hard times in the 50m pool. Thank’s for all who joined in. A special thank goes to Markus Ressler and Andreas Wünscher who were absolutly inevitable on the way to 3rd place.
At the end our tactic that made us doing 100m intervalls for the last hour turned out to be perfect for winning in the duel about the 3rd place against the very good fourth placed team ISS Seepferdchen. All in all we could reach 1634 lenghts and 30 lenghts advance towards the fourth.
We have collected about 80€ for the charity Licht ins Dunkel! Thank you once again and maybe until next year.
Getting ready for tomorrows 24h swim with guys from Trialize in Radkersburg for charity association Licht ins Dunkel.
http://www.parktherme.at/service/veranstaltungen/parktherme-24-stunden-schwimmen/
Everything was prepared for the last race of this season. I felt ready to finish the half-marathon within one hour and 30 minutes and the last trainings made me feel confident being able to reach my goal.
The start of the 21st half-marathon in Graz (of course the first with my participation) was on Sunday at 10 o’clock in front of the Opera in Graz. My plan was to start with a pace of 4:00/km knowing that it will settle down to 4:100-4:15/km within some time. At the first place everything looked good to me. Even the weather got better and I became warmer. It was funny to see that almost all of the runners tried to run in the shadow to avoid the sun because it was really hot 45 minutes after the start.
At the 13km mark I got overtaken by the 1:30 pacemaker – at this time I already knew that my goals won’t be reached at this day. Nevertheless I tried as hard as anyhow possible to make the best out of it even though I had to reduce the speed more and more.
At the end finished the half-marathon more or less disappointed within 1:36:10.
This time I could not reach my goal but I will train hard and try to reach this goal at Vienna City half-marathon in April next year. Nevertheless I could set a new personal record in my third half-marathon in my first season as a triathlete. Now the time is right for some holidays to gain new energy for the upcoming season and goals.
Further results can be found on the webpage: http://results.pentek-timing.at/results/show_results_db.php?veranstnr=12340&racenr=2
A short but very good preparation with Markus Ressler comes to an end. Next weekend starts the half-marathon in Graz. My goal will be to beat 1:30.
Additionally I have booked my ticket to the Ironman Austria 70.3 in St. Pölten next year.
After finishing my season highlight on the 31st of August at the Ironman 70.3 in Zell am See I started thinking about the new season 2015. Before giving any thought what races I want to participate or which goals I want to set, I wanted to clarify some general conditions. My first considerations were whether I should or should not make an investment in a new time trail bike. Although many bikes came into my mind I reconsidered that I have to choose another way. I decided not to buy a bike this year and postpone the purchase for a further year but doing some readjustments on my actual bike. There is also a trainer included in my plan that should make my training hours more efficient and increase my performance in all three disciplines.
A friend of mine and some promotion in the triathlon magazine Finisher brought the name Markus Ressler and Trialize to me. Already after the first talk I knew that this could work out as I expected it. We immediately wrapped things up because the first goal, half-marathon in Graz within 1:30, is coming soon. After an lactate-check we are now in the middle of the preparation for the race on 12th of October.
I am happy with this decision and hope for a good and successful cooperation!!!