Blog: Time flies. Australia is getting closer. The days are getting shorter and shorter. The weather has cooled down a bit. Winter has now arrived on Mallorca. It's crazy that a few days ago we were on the road for a short/short time and now we're sitting on our bikes like the Eskimos. Because we have adapted to the Spanish feeling of temperature more than we would like. Now it's already whining at 15 degrees Celsius. But the departure to Australia is not far off. We're going to Frankfurt on Wednesday. Jo also holds a bike fitting seminar there in cooperation with medi. Hopefully it will be time to start sweating again from Sunday, since summer is beginning Down Under.
Until then, the tiredness will only increase. It may not sound like much, but my training schedule is over 30 hours a week (20 of them on the saddle, 7 in the pool and 6 running). Not only does the training have to be managed alone, but also healthy nutrition, rest periods, physiotherapy, travel planning and organization and much more.
To be specific, a typical day for me looks like this: get up at half past six, have breakfast, then swim from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Cycle back home, have a big breakfast, check e-mails and Facebook, then three hours on the bike followed by a paddock run - and it's already four o'clock in the afternoon. Do a few more things at the desk, go shopping, make dinner, have problem areas treated and off to bed. Unfortunately, there is not much time left for family and friends. It's good that my coach is not only my coach, but also my life partner, physio, bike mechanic ... When a certain level of chaos in our domestic order is reached, he knows that a day with a little less training would be appropriate ... should of course remain the exception.
Jo flew to Germany with his athlete Markus Hörmann on Sunday. Shortly before he left, he gave me a terrific gift: he had my old Giant racing bike (eight years old) brought back into shape: new gears, new handlebars, new handlebar tape – it’s now a completely new bike again. That was one Surprise! We already packed my competition bike in the bike case. So I can train undisturbed for the rest of the time on my favorite island. On Sundays I sped through the area for three hours with the Spanish cycling group and then had two hours to myself afterwards – viva la vida!
After such a hard training block (in four weeks 2.500 km on the bike, 100 km in the water and almost 300 km on foot) I am already looking forward to my travel days. That means eating and resting a lot so that we can put in another 10-day training block in Australia. Next time you will hear from me about the really big “island” – until then, your Diana