Ironman European Championship - Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪2017
Ironman European Championship - Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪 The morning did not start well, I was up shortly before the alarm went of at 4:00am, stretched and spoke to Elle, who was supportive till she joked see you four hours. This played on my mind as with sore knees I was concerned about finishing the bike. A bee then flew through the window. It was a big hairy buzzing bee 🐝and it landed in my tri gear. Food and everything ready I was out at 4:30am and at the bus 10mins later and on the way to the swim start. All went well there, the early rising sun made things seem less difficult. Tyres pumped, nutrition in, checkin in Street Bag and I was done. Down by the river I sat, ate and banana and wondered where all the other athletes were. Seemed they must have been still fiddling. Still about 45mins to go, maybe I came to early. Checkin closed and the Athletes started coming down. All 3000 odd of them. I went for a small warm up swim, tried to stomach a gel and t...