IM Frankfurt D-2

had a long start to the day today. joined teryn, chris and their friends in their rented car to the lake where we are going to swim on sunday. we got lost along the way and it became a 1 hour long drive there.

when we FINALLY got to it, we werent allowed to park our car inside the park, so we found another way in the woods and "bashed" our car through it to get to somewhere near the lake.



the lagener waldsee is BEAUTIFUL!!! it really is amazing. i lovvve it! i opted not to swim in my wetsuit, and the water was cold at first, but once i got warmed up it was very comfortable and i felt really good swimming in it. i loved the lake so much i was a bit sad when we finished our short swim and had to leave.


so beautiful!!!


bringing the GT cap to frankfurt!

went back to the hotel to slack a while before heading out with coach david and the rest for lunch. we went to the irish bar again, and i had this kickass huge sandwich for just €4.80.



went to the race expo again where i bought the ironman tap watch. after calculating the cost and taking into account the tax rebate, i realize that it was quite a worth it buy so i got it. saw andreas raelert there as well as someone who i suspected was faris al sultan. but i wasnt sure. otherwise i would have taken a shot with the speedo man.

went for the race brief after that. o lo and behold! o joy! it was declared that it would be a non-wetsuit swim! (i dun like swimming in my wetsuit) another thing was that the weather forecast expects the temperature on sunday to run up to 40 degrees Celsius. Seriously??? i came all the way here from singapore just to race in hotter temperatures??? man...



had a great carbo loading dinner with josh as the rest didnt want to eat at the dinner (beats me why). and i got to meet my ironman inspiration Chris "Macca" Mccormack and the flying dutchwoman Yvonne Van Vlerken and got their autographs and photos! super happiness!!!


the flying dutchwoman. just last month she won austria 70.3 by 0.1 seconds.


Macca. Ironman World Champion, ITU World Champion, European Champion, host of ITU, 70.3 and other Ironman wins. This guy has done it all. A living legend in every right.

after all this, we got back to the hotel relatively early and packed our transition bags. all . 3. of. them. this ironman is really different from all the races ive been used to doing. but i must really admit it is very well organized and puts all the singapore races to shame.

ok, tomorrow we´ll be checkign in our bikes as well as 2 of our transition bags. gonna get to bed early too cause i´ll need all the rest i can get!