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Third race – Pago Alpe Adria triathlon in Velden am Wörthersee

Pago Alpe Adria triathlon (Olympic distance 1,5 * 40 * 10 km) on 14.06.2014 in Velden:
My first triathlon over the olympic distance and I decided to do it in the wonderful country Carinthia. I had a lot of time to think of some questions before this race: how will it be to swim 1,5k within a race, how is the run after all exertion just to name two examples.
At the transition zone at the bike check-in one of the judges told me that my transporting box is way too larger to put it into the area during the race. After putting the box back in the car I finally could concentrate on the race again.
The distance on the swim turned out to be perfect for me because already short time after start I could swim my own tempo. Seemed like nobody else was swimming the same speed I was swimming so I had a boring 1,5k swim. After 26 minutes I got out of the water, where by the way waves were really high for a lake, and had to run some meters with an altitude difference to come into the transition area.
Now I had to do four 10k laps on the bike circuit on the Süduferstraße near the Wörthersee. At first I thought that this might be a boring fact of the race but already in the first lap an Italian athlete overtook me. After he passed me he turned around and shouted at me “Andiamo, andiamo, andiamo….!!!” and waved with his right hand. Immediately I tried to follow him so that I am not alone during the race.
We started our run almost at the same time but at the beginning of the second lap he overtook me and had to let him go. I finish on the 72nd overall rank and 16th rank in my class (MEK1) in 2:17:42.