Six Minutes
dream was already a lot of boundaries in the sport and everyone has written his own attitude towards it. they motivate me in particular. what would be a marathon without the alluring 3h limit? an ironman limit without the magical 10 hours? every athlete has his own dream-limits, to undercut him and which he demanded everything just because of the more underestimated. after my sub5h rode through the lava desert of podersdorf I took her by simplon in Vorarlberg, the logical next target in the eye: Learning to finally crawl fast. after 8 years triathlon. = O) as a motivating goal I set myself the 6min mark for 400m and I knew that would not go without pressure from outside. a training plan was needed. and a trainer. But not just any trainer, but the best from Vienna to Passau and very Burgenland. a man, whom they called the fish: peter "berndlbad" Beigl. = O)
week 1 I find myself While the pool again, but I forgot to print out the plan. I lose at every turn my hose and the water, I do not swallow, I seem to in the glasses. in simmering water scold me up for the ball round: "Oh dear, a wüda". why in the world anyone would voluntarily pursue this sport?
I manage about 15m legs with ironing board, then I have to cancel but panting. test on the weekend, the first 400m. my co-trainer iron chris me before rushing on mtb wienerwald by. 6min55 is the first benchmark. then I feel the beloved polar clock. my equipment, the water seems to be just like me suffer.
week 2 I managed to print out the training plan, with notes to 100 pages. I'm at the pool on it that I do not understand all the abbreviations. I lose the second hose at every turn, swim a zig-zag by the 40 people in the pool and swallow again hektoliter as chlorinated water. will prefer to plunk down everything. I'm at the end not just made for swimming? I lose the third hose at every turn and the second clock me going. what the hell! # * X! !?'**!!
again week 1 I spend a weekend in Saxony. Finally I get two a floating hose, which remains in place, and a dense glasses. in Zwickau Johannesbad (!) I bring in a light moment together for the first time something like a flip turn. I take courage and new make up my mind to start the plan again.
persuaded iron chris me now and more often early in the swim berndlbad and I create my first full length legs with ironing board. techniques with exercises I recognize the importance of the outstretched arm is the water situation and slowly I get used to the peculiarities of the swimming sports. wolf will stop my 400 test in Schwechat, 6min25 is a big step forward.
again week 2 The Cayman glasses is perfect for the triathlon, but the slide after the push off, the round glasses somehow visible in the upper arms away and it comes into water. Sweden has a glasses so forth. in order to 2eur50 internet, which is also still looking for a Köpfler from 10m close board. perfect. in Schwechat block now a ground for swimmers, but I can not swim outside of training hours with paddles. I can pull no training to 100%, this is me it all too much.
week 3 me hurt both shoulders. the stretch on the head I feel a dull, aching inflamed. Internet research provides information about the "swimmers shoulder". a muscular imbalance. na that was clear. if there's any sport in a typical injury is, I'm with my tonic muscles of the first one that caught it. I continued to swim, especially the right to be hurt but more and more.
week 4 I make underwater videos with wolf in Schwechat and work with a lot of strength training on the body voltage. which can also shoulder pain after 2-3 days of rest do not. apparently called "impingement syndrome", while the external rotators are too weak in the shoulder. I begin with thera-band exercises to fix this problem. sprints after the shoulder is completely rigid, so goes the training certainly has no sense.
shoulder Weeks 1, 2 and 3 I accept the shoulder pain as a clear sign of my body what to do next and I promise him to swim again until I have the muscles located in the shoulder the balance. after a few thousand push-ups since the federal army, it is no surprise that the breast more than their antagonist. Viewed positively, but here is a great potential, since I only against the strong side in order to swim then finally healthy and strong can. I do every day 3 to 4 times the thera-band exercises until complete exhaustion. , the adrenaline-dividend during the last repetitions in the strength training I always liked. 3 weeks without swimming, which will go well?
again week 4 clear the water is gone and I'm feeling Torkler the ground along as if I had never been in the pool. this are shouldering the 100% ok and strong. the water situation, I was able to improve hull strength with much. the training plan in a transparent envelope alone at the start of liability base and stay dry. duration of the 1500m swim I am doing scared of counted 44 Simmeringer beer belly-swimmers in the short children's pool. create the first 8 leg lengths in one evening. katrin stop 400 the next test in happy land: 6min17. yay!
week 5 I prefer my first 3000m training through completely. KA1 first training with soft paddles that hang down but like wet washcloth. GA2 intervals in the swimming pool innsbruck shoulders fully ok, I am beginning to feel like a swimmer. The advantage of thera-bands: the you can really take on any trip! I set my timing on extreme for front quadrant. when I'm finished with the breathable, as long as the lead arm is still in front, is suffering the water driving position is not as strong, but produced a brief pause in the. hm ...
Week 6 I work on my turn and Gleittechnik. I am beginning to get addicted after the swim. the pump in the muscles after hard intervals, the flow of water all over my body, the speed, that's very cool! morning swim in the berndlbad announces peter the crucial two weeks in and I put myself mentally in a turn-key training. these are units that you complete remodel, alter the body. where you at night drenched in sweat in bed and notice how things are happening. the next morning you stand as a different person to.
Week 7 I stop now with any interval and I try to meet the time-table from the Hottenrott accurate to the second. I measure the same at the end of intervals always immediately my pulse to the training area to meet as closely as possible. KA1 and KA2 intervals with hard paddles. because what goes on. I hang at the end of the pool like a boxer after the eleventh round. I create my first training 3.700m, a true swimmer myself with his flippers in the brutal face. just no display. please. and no more X-ray head! = O), first leg test at 100m in 3min10. disappointing. 80% of the force is the crawl from the poor, but I focus from now on efficient leg tempi.
week 8 am in the swimming pool on it I tulln that the angle of the feet is extremely relevant and tempo swim the 100m legs suddenly in 2min37. creating my first 4,000 training, first 80 dips during strength training and again at the weekend klosterneuburg in 400 tests. 6min01, believe it and can not swim again, 6min03. go home disappointed, just to come back the next day. I've finally made it. Although the bias can feel the hard training week and the two tests, but do 5min58 and I'm happy!
the whole week a chill happy travel to Zurich and come home again, not a minute sport can even sleep no more. make up my mind despite the hangover after the business-ball a couple of 400m swim tests and concentrate this time, especially on a violent kick to pause at the advancing front quadrant swimming-bridge. the clock shows: 5min56, 5min48 then full throttle on and check again 5min50.
I would like to thank most sincerely for all people who have supported me in this floating block. very special thanks to Peter, who has led me confidently straight through the difficult times. makes a good coach just write more than just perfect training plans!
your swimming snick
the early nineties we met a - shall we say creative - color choice in the design of various sports equipment. This becomes clear when BASSO Kronos at 42 300 shillings. Pure aesthetics with 16 speeds. Note the anatomically correct angle of the triathlon handlebars. The professionals should think back now and give up the overstretched and often over-riding position. 
For gearheads, it was back 18 years, many ways to get his money. To be invested in aerodynamics Auffrisieren in bright red 3 - or 5-spoke wheels FIR - selbstverständich in 26 inches. Serious look for the lowest 34 000 shillings. For more seconds could be obtained with a fitting triathlon handlebars, which offered many more opportunities than handle the uncomfortable models today. 
For trips on the road bike you had to do without fashionable clothes. Subtle color blends harmoniously together in pleasing patterns and flattering to the eye. On the country roads or in the city was one easily recognized as a professional cyclist and was admiring glances to be sure. For functionality not yet had to do without and with the fabric covered styrofoam helmets or Send Kapperl was incidentally also the head protected. 
The right picture shows a rapid change from swimming in a relay triathlon on riding. Note the wetsuit, the thin material fits perfectly and with no folds on the body to the highest standards to satisfy hydrodynamic! The bike is incredibly innovative with STI-circuit and carbon frames. The whole thing was in 1993 to 78 000 shillings. If one to two percent annual inflation, this enspräche silly now 7,700 euros - though triathlon, then do it right! 
