Originally written in German. Translated to English by AI — please excuse any awkward phrasing.
Yesterday at noon we finally headed off to the race — together with my training buddy Tobi I made my way to Frankfurt. The drive went smoothly and traffic-free, so we arrived right on time for the race briefing.
During the drive, each of us had a very interesting top-tier piece of information to contribute:
- My mouth holds just under 60ml, meaning I need to take two big sips per minute from my aero bottle to hit my nutrition targets
- 30g of extra weight in a running shoe, at a cadence of 168 and a run time of 3:30h, amounts to an additional 1,058kg you have to lift (kindly measured and calculated by Tobi)
The race briefing had some interesting news. Right after that we went to pick up our race packets, which went pretty quickly and smoothly, so we made it to the hotel just before 6pm — and headed right back out again a short time later for the pasta party.
There I managed to convince the competition to eat two pieces of cake — with bolognese sauce on top, naturally.
