Here you find the link for my second Blog in the Zuerisee-Zeitung: http://www.zsz.ch/blogs/frischluft/wie-in-der-ovowerbung/story/23542527
My first of four months in Sydney is already done. I adapt pretty good to the different training. That means I get less muscle pain after the gym, I have energy for other things beside of training and the most important, I start to feel better on the water. There were some hard moments in this first weeks but it was worth it . One of this moments was definitely the 25km Surfski-Race called „20 Beaches“. I underestimated the waves on the Ocean a lot. So I took a nice long swim during the race and had a lot of trouble to find my way back to the boat. But I managed to get in before I got slammed on some rocks and finally also crossed the finish line. It was a few minutes behind my expectations but finally I was just happy to finish my first Surfski-Race in my career. It was a really funny experience but I enjoyed a lot to go back to my Sprintkayak.
In this narrow, little boat a spent many hard sessions. I proved that my training mate Murray is really fit and I have some work to do here. For Christmas I got some days off and used this time to try surfing and working on my Surfski-Skills. Some friends organised that I could go on the „Fast Ferry“ on Boxing Day for watching the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race. I was impressed by this armada of sailing boats and even more by the hundreds of spectator boats, thousands of spectators on land and the dozen of helicopters up in the air. My last week in 2015 I have trained in Narrabeen again and tonight I go on the Fast Ferry to watch the huge Sydney firework. You see it’s all about water down here and that’s what I like.
I can look back to a successful 2015, I managed to show my best race on the most important competition of the year and placed 13th at the World championships in Milan over the Olympic 1000m. All my 5000m races during the season I finished Top 10 and in Milan even 6th. I am proud to all this, but finally it doesn’t count a lot, because I’m not yet qualified to the Olympics. I want to change that next May and reach my biggest goal in my career.
Thank you all for following and supporting me, I wish you a nice New years Eve and all the best in 2016!
