Hello everybody
it`s already a few week old that I packed my gear and moved to Canberra for the D squad winter camp. It was like always a hard time to leave my family back, but it`s olympic season and that`s motivation enough.
It`s great to share a flat with my good friend Bart Aernouts and train with coach Darren and my team mates. The picture is from our training pool, which I see quite often these days!
cheers Andi
Thanks to Enervit Austria for the support in the last couple of years. They support me since I`m a junior, which is pretty special!
Enervit stands for anti doping proven sports nutrition, which helps me in training and racing. If you Austrian and can`t find the Enervit products in a shop near you, visit www.sport-equipment.at and you can order direct.
Cheers Andi
Thanks to Subaru and especially the carhouse Gimpl in Puch/Sbg for the great car and the big support! Everytime I come home, I`m looking forward to get in my car again. In the winter on our austrian snowy roads, the permanent 4 wheel drive is king:)!
Cheers Andi
(recovery Thai style)
Hallo everybody!
Back in Austria, back to training:)! It was a taff year with lots of up and downs, but I try to life in the moment and not look back. We analyzed a lot and we learned a lot. Next year gonna be different and we go back to oldschool daz coaching.
Consistent good training and no stress is my motto for the upcoming period.
I had a good couple of weeks of with doing nothing and recover my immun system in Thailand. Once back home I started back into training and built a good support system around my new home in Salzburg next to the olympic center. Its great to train back home, we have a whole lot of trails a good pool and cycling is great as well.
Its always nice to meet some other austrian sport peoples back home and to chat with one or the other winter olympic medal winners. Its inspiring to hear their story and to have the same dream to make the olympics.
Middle of Jan I`m going back to my squad in OZ, but meanwhile I enjoy being with my family and train a lot in the austrian winter!
Have a great and healthy new year!
cheers
Hi everybody!
The last race of the season, the World Cup in Aukland, is history and I`m right now already in Thailand on holiday.
I had a great week with my homestay Sue and Graham and prepared as good as possible for the last big hit out of the year. The course was a really good (taff) one and a big amount of spectators was expected, so I was looking forward to get out there and race.
My swim was very average and I felt a bit lost and beaten up, but I tried not to lose motivation and fight hard, knowing that I can catch back some time on the hilly bike course.
Coach Darren and me had only about 3 1/2 weeks time to prepare for the last race block and on the bike I can pick up some good shape pretty fast. That paid off on that day and worked quite hard the whole 40km. We had a lead group of about 8 people in front and I managed to work my way from pretty much last to the main chase bunch.
Like always in ITU racing, only a few people are willing to work and do a proper race, the rest is sitting on the wheel and simulate not being able to help. I got quite frustrated with some of them, which I regret, since thats the way these races are played.
My motivation was different, go hard or go home! and I had fun riding that course:) We managed to get rid of quite a few people and after T2 I tried to hang on the pack for Top10. I cramped a bit in the first lap and lost contact, but managed to catch a few people from the lead pack. In the end I finished 15th place, which was good Olympic points and a ok end of the season.
The most important for me and Darren is, that we are the only one who know with how much little training we could squeeze the best result possible out and that was a good learning experience. Next year gonna be hopefully a more healthy and mistake free year, where we can just do the consistent work and better days will come for sure!
cheers Andi
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