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forecasts

It is not so long ago, according to the calendar that we finally were able to welcome the summer. I am of the opinion that this year we were really spoiled in terms of sunshine and temperatures - at least compared to last year. Really - from May to now, the end of September, you could almost always train in a short shirt, which increases the quality of life or exercise properly.

now I look back on a season that is not exactly a highlight, but certainly not bad. The last comparable year was 2006 - my first year as a licensed pro-athlete in the long distance.
This year I felt even on the short distance at last the usual pressure. The Ironman introduced me not really satisfied I was hoping for more - or less if you look at the ending time.
But then came the "turn" - a new lung doctor, new diagnostics, new dosage of medication. After two weeks with virtually no medication I was in Locarno my former best time of 4:11 hours to just seven minutes after the press and the bottom, although I am on the bike the chain 'jumped out and I was struggling on the run course with mild respiratory distress.
It went well. I was happy with the race and felt well prepared for the outstanding season-final in Barcelona.

Tomorrow morning we go - I will go by car through France and stay in Pineda de Mar, about a kilometer from the venue Calella removed.
The last days were anything but optimum preparation - and I most of the time with my band "Sláinte" spent in the recording studio, the training course was too short. Sure - so close to the competition can be on the final shape to do anything, but for some it would have been reassuring to have spent one or two hours in the saddle. The mental stress did the rest - and all in all, makes it very difficult to provide a forecast for the Challenge.
I do not know what will happen to me in Spain. Perhaps everything works, and I manage a fantastic race. I hope so.
My personal goal is to give the race at all I have. The season to conclude with a race that I can say at the end: that was the maximum. Everything did not go.

I wish you all a good end of the season - be it the well-deserved beer in the garden or on the trip to Hawaii. Winter is coming fast enough, the next season sneaks up on already. Enjoy the time that you can totally stress-free stay in the sun, without freezing! I look forward to a fast and hard race in Calella and I will then report back.

Sincerely, Fabian

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experiments

In sport there are many things that do not run perfect. Fairness in competition is a key word with which one hour-long debates can trigger.
I consider myself as an athlete tends to be very fair. Only "tend" because you can not really control who you at the swim start now on a fry. Because it is virtually impossible to get on board as one of only three outstretched Geltuben and thus different to be considered. Because it is sometimes just stupid, even "fair" (ie, alone and with no slipstream) to drive, if left pass by platoons with thirty, forty athletes wheel to wheel on one.

fight since my childhood I have a problem that is abused in sports, especially in professional sports, often as a pretext, as a means to an end: I am asthmatic.
been in previous years tried this disease to be with homeopathy Mr. (which brought me sleepless nights, an allergy to sheep's wool and the prophecy, he could push never in my life sport without killing myself), I also found, among the ten years to traditional medicine. And not long after the sports.
Only: I am now, more or less dependent on medications to take with me, which, as you so sweetly on the black list.
It went to me saying that this medication reported in the various sports federations such as Swiss or the Olympic Tri Austria was. So I filled each year appropriate forms of anti-doping companies, and has been registered. Only: because my medication were in a division where one of "simplified procedure" language (or German: Doctor's signs, approved it gets), it became clear very soon - such a sweep of the signed authorization says nothing. Virtually everyone who wanted to, got the stamp of Okay on the use of drugs, which supports the lung function - and many more. The sad thing is that I am more than just an athlete confirmed this - but do not run in red.

But apparently it is now over. From this year, so 2009 it is no longer enough from a doctor to prescribe remedies let - you must prove his illness by the prescribed test. This means that an athlete of "Performance asthma suffers (ie, shortness of breath, which is operating at loads), is clamped to a ergometer and there must be under medical supervision really give the edge before anything is approved. In acute asthma permanent (thus me) a methacholine test is required - a lung function test with subsequent inhalation of asthma-provoking substances.

Yesterday it was for me so far - I had my test. A week earlier, was "allowed" to sell me the medication altogether, and then was measured.
I felt rarely in my life so uncomfortable in that booth - After the third delivery of the methacholine test had to be canceled because my lung function had dropped to well below 80% of the standard. I also feel the after effects today, the morning after, and if I remember my last such test, then it will take a while until I'm fully operational again. My asthma is unfortunately still quite real - but thanks to the sport, I find it increasingly easier to control the disease.

means for me specifically, Locarno is an experiment. I would not continue to deviate from my bar and will instead tackle the competition without medication - which is used again when the methacholine completely is deported.
In view of my ambitions in the Challenge Barcelona, it is important to me heal, have made themselves fully again - even if that means to let others go first on Sunday.

doping in triathlon, as everywhere, in the meantime, unfortunately, definitely an issue. And while most of the top athletes will be controlled so well that the national anti-doping agencies modest even know if even an aspirin is taken, so more and more recreational athletes begin to abuse drugs in order to increase their performance. Unfortunately, this is neither a statement frustration on my part nor Urban legend but a fact of which must not ignore it.
The WADA (World Anti Doping Agency) always takes new steps to prevent this (the above mentioned adjustments to the provisions concerning anti-asthmatics were such a step), but in the end the responsibility lies primarily with us: the athletes. outside

Therefore my appeal to you there: remains fair. Makes even a trip to the appropriate sites on the Internet, read the competition rules by - and rejoice when you have finished a competition on its own. Because that's the point, finally, is it?

www.antidoping.ch - the Anti-Doping Association of Switzerland

www.nada.at - the National Anti-Doping Agency Austria

http://www.wada-ama.org/en/ - the World Anti Doping Agency

Sincerely, Fabian