Some time has passed since my last post here. The reason for this is simple: I have tried to focus on the training and the preparation for the upcoming competitions. After the camp in Mallorca I went to another doctor to clarify for myself how to proceed with my knee injury. Same as the second, also the third doctor told me not to do a surgery and try to do some running and see how the knee behaves.

Already at the first running attempts I recognised that there is neither pain in the knee nor is there any swelling after the training.

On this saturday afternoon the first competition of this season in Großsteinbach took place – if somebody had told me that 2 months ago I would never have thought of this.

Twelve minutes after the start of wave number two I got into the transition area for the first time even tough I had some troubles at begin.

The bike course had some very tough parts however, after 40 minutes on the bike I could come to change my equipment for the second.

After finally finding my running shoes I could start the 5k track and see whether my knee endures.

I finished the run in 21 minutes with a pace of 4:14/km. All in all I finished on the 67th place and in my age group 12th in 1:14:50.

Thank’s a lot to Hans and Triaguide.com for the great pictures. Another will hopefully follow soon.

For results take a look at the PDF file.