The IronMan 70.3 in Weymouth was an incredible and life changing experience. Let me walk you through my Race Day starting with the swim. Not just any swim but THE swim of my life.

Let’s start at the beginning and have a look at what & how I packed my three transition bags for the IronMan 70.3, what I will do differently next time.

I DID IT! I seriously finished the IronMan 70.3 last weekend and I’m still processing what happened. So let’s start with the mantras that helped me lining up at the start of this race.

“Are you crazy?! You’re going to do an IronMan 70.3 without having done any other smaller triathlon?” I hear that a lot! Well, it wasn’t my original plan to have such a rocket start. Have a look what my initial plans were and why they changed.

This is a bit of an usual post for me because I’m going to share some training stats with you and explain what they mean to me.

Part 3: This post is an important one for me personally. It feels more like a motivational speech to myself on how to overcome my deep fear of swimming the open water.

What is visualization and what techniques have helped me?

Part 2: In this post, we’ll go back to 2019 again and have a look at how my transition from weight lifting to triathlon training looked like.

New mini series: Why did I decide to do a triathlon? Where it all began…

Everyone’s journey starts somewhere. My running journey started at 0 km. Here’s how I’ll work my way up to 100 km.

Mantras help me throughout life. In this post I’ll share with you some of my favourite mantras I use for my ultra trail run challenges and training sessions.

Yesterday parts of my beloved home trails got devastated by a fire.

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” That’s certainly true when it comes to blisters and infected toe nails. Warning: This article contains pictures of blisters and lost toe nails at the end of the post.

Fastpacking is a combination of trail running and camping. Thus, key is to pack as ultralight as possible.

Finding what works best for my recovery has been a game changer. Here’s my recovery routine.

Pretty much every time I talk to someone about ultra trail running, these questions come up.

Here are my personal top 5 choices that changed my trail running performance and experience.

All you ever wanted sits on the other side of fear.