MSD 2021
Due to the pandemic nearly all events have been cancelled so far. As soon as life get's back to normal I hope that this space can be filled with information. As for now I can show some images of the few remaining adventures.
17./18.09.2021: Austria, Linz, Pleschinger See: Swim marathon
Several years ago, when swimming at the 24-hour-swim-marathon in Bad Radkersburg with about 25 other athletes in my lane of the swimming pool, I had the idea of doing a 24-hour-marathon in a lake, without lanes and without bumping into other swimmers every so often. Finally I realized this idea in Pleschinger lake near Linz. Unfortunately no one joined me in this adventure.
Feli Lintner and my dear Amalia were my crew for this event. They stayed up all night long with outside temperatures colder than the water temeraptures.
And although I slept for two hours during the night I managed to swim more than 41 km.
07.-11.09.2021: Tar, Croatia: private training camp
For the second time this year I spent a week at Solaris, my favourite naturist training site. It is really nice to do sports and relax in this idyllic place.
03.-05.09.2021: UltraCzech, Racice, Czech Republic
My one (and only) ultra race of this year. I knew that I had not cycled and run enough to be able to improve last year's time in this fabulous race, still I had high expectations to finish in a decent time without any health problems. The swim went better than expected, and the first day on my (new) time trial bike was fabulous. The second bike day started very well but in the end I felt the lack of kilometers. Same with the double marathon. Bit I was happy to finish in a time of 31:21:31.
My good friend and crew Andre Jungen from Germany contributed a lot to my success with his perfect crewing. Thanks Andre!
And: it was so good to see all my Czech Ultra friends again. The UltraCzech event has become home to me!
06.08.2021: Mondsee crossing, Mondsee, Austria
Last year Miriam, Robert, Matthias and myself swam a total of four Austrian lakes (Grundlsee, Hallstätter See, Traunsee and Fuschlsee), this year we only swam one: the Mondsee crossing was a10km swim which we enjoyed a lot. Hopefully next year we will be able to swim a couple more.
10.07.2021: Traunsee - Bridgestone Genußlauf, Traunkirchen - Gmunden, Austria
After my spine surgery and all the cancelled races because of Corona this is my first step back into racing-life. I ran the 11 km in 1:04:53 and was quite happy with my effort and the fact that I felt no pain at all in my back.
At the same time Amalia ran the half marathon. She is a dedicated athlete and very ambitious.
27.06.-02.07.2021: West - East - Bike tour, Austria, Bangs - Deutsch-Jahrndorf: private bike tour
Together with my good friend Robert Lintner we cycled on six days from the westermost to the easternmost village of Austria, covering apr. 900 km with a total of 9.000 m of elevation gain. It was a great experience.
14.-24.06.2021: Croatia, Tar: private training camp
Every year I enjoy my private training week in the nudist camp of Solaris in Tar. Open water swimming, running along the sea and cycling beautiful Istria is always a highlight.
05./06.06.2021: Austria / Czech Republic, Linz - Cerna v Posuvami - Krumau - Linz: private bike tour
Together with my friend Robert we cycled from Linz to lake Lipno (to plan the Lipno swim marathon together with the local people) and then on the Cesky Krumlov. The next day we cycled back to Linz.
01.02.2021: 42nd Steiralauf, Bad Mitterndorf, Austria
Since the official race was cancelled the organizers decided to hold a virtual race. Athletes could run on a new cross country trail during one week and then send proof of their achievment. I was able to finish the 23km in 1:23:30.
