Happy New Year
from Alain Beaufayt (2003)
Hi All,
And yet another year gone by. A year made of challenges!
I did a total of 22 races starting the season late
March after a nice training camp in Rimini Italy. We
covered some 800 km (500 miles) in 10 days. If you know
the region there, there are some bl#$%^ high mountains
with nice steep ramps where you can read Pantani on! The
man himself is from the region so...... Anyhow did 11
road races including Club races and criteriums. The
highlight of the season for me were the Mountain bikes
races and Triathlons (started these in 2002). Mountain
bikes races are called marathons and there are people
from allover Europe participating. I did Garmish,
Tegernsee, Salzkammergut (European Championship-BRUTAL)
and Rupohlding. If you surf
the web with these name you will find the information.
These races are on ever year. In between,
I did four triathlons what we call the "short"
distance...1,5 km swimming, between 40 and 52 km on bike
and 10 to 12 km run...I quickly realized 1,5 km in the
water is something... Bike and
running are ok for me and managed to finish 11th once in
Karlsfeld. Now I really picked up on this and started
from October last year, to train in a swimming pool twice
a week. I also
increased my running km along with biking. This year I
have a total of 300 km running, 377 km Mtb, and 495 road
bike. I planned to do two Mountain bike races on the 1st
and 6 of June (Garmish 100km and Tegernsee 98km). Then
the rest of the weekend will be Triathlons. highlight
will be the OberBayern cup series (6 triathlons) and the
International triathlon of Witten. So far I
have done two running competitions with pretty good time
for me, still marging for progress though. But at least I
know now I can run 4'30" per KM so an average speed
of 13.8km/h.Ah yes, one more thing, I proposed to my
girlfriend Tina and will get married this year (after the
season though) in September. Tina and I met on a MTB
race, and we participate in the same competitions...Helps
a lot to understand the hours spent training :-))) That
is all for me ...I wish you all a Happy New Year 2003
Best regards,
Alain Beaufayt <E-Mail: Alain.Beaufayt@hp.com>
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