u/Insanel0l

Moin,

Ich hab vor genau einem Monat ein Visum beantragt, da wir länger als 30 Tage da sein werden und uns (eigentlich) die Verlängerung vor Ort sparen wollten.

Seit 30 Tagen aber entsprechend keine Rückmeldung, online steht immer noch "pending document check"

Mail o.Ä. zur Nachreichung von Dokumente hab ich keine bekommen. Konsulat ist das in FFM.

Hat jemand selbige Erfahrung oder in letzer Zeit eins genehmigt bekommen? Ärgere mich langsam, nicht einfach den 30+30 Weg gegangen zu sein :D

Reise ist in grob einem Monat, meine Freundin hat das allerdings noch nicht gemacht weil wir erstmal schauen wollten wie das läuft, würden - wenn das so bleibt - bei ihr auch keins beantragen.

So listen, I'm a complete beginner by triathlon standards as well and "only" did my first 70.3 this year, but before even considering doing something like that I did 2 smaller triathlons before and got plenty of time in all of the disciplines in to a) understand if it's even made for me and b) check if my body can somehow handle even a fraction of the workload required

Nowadays on here, but especially on social media, you see tons of people simply signing up for 70.3s as a content challenge. While it works out for most of the people that invest the energy, 2 of the influencers I followed for Zell am See had a very bad ending to their journey and it should be a wakeup call for all those (dozens currently) of posts right now registering for those kind of events without ever entering a pool or not even owning a roadbike.

First guy I followed DNF'd in the first transition by hard cutoff after barely surviving the swim in 1:09:30, second guy literally broke his leg in the finish line after walking on cramps for 16km.

I don't want to sound gatekeeping at all as doing sports is prolly the best and most healthy trend we've had in all the time I could think of in social media and I've never had a more supportive community (both online and in reallife), but signing up for something like this without even having the slightest idea if your body can survive it is just straight up dumb.

Find the ones of last year here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/fcbayern/comments/1mktj94/bold_prediction_thread_season_2526/

https://old.reddit.com/r/fcbayern/comments/1kyzr8s/bold_prediction_thread_transfer_window_2526/

Just as a motivation for people starting. I couldn't run a mile a year ago, got my first road bike ever at the end of july last year and the only swimming I did was breaststroking for 30m with my head above the water in my local lake.

Got a swim coach, got a wahoo kickr core, got sick with chronic tonsilltis in october and had them removed after 5 months of being sick in march just to bounce back and finish my first 70.3 in Duisburg yesterday in just under 6:20h.

I've did 2 sprints last year in the summer, had to cancel my halfmarathon because it was 5 days post tonsillectomy and just knew I had to lock in after I recovered from my surgery and invested 9-13h weekly to get that finish done.

For anyone that sees those youtube videos of crazy fit youtubers or influencers doing "100 days to Ironman or whatever" challenges, just know there's no shortcuts, show up to your workout and don't find excuses.

My legs are absolutely destroyed, I can't walk at all but I can't stop smiling either :D

My rough splits for anyone interested (I'll keep it rounded so I dont leak myself):

Swimming 47 minutes (2:30 pace)

Bike 2:50h

Run ~2:25h (this was tough as shit)

Disclaimer before the pace police kills me: a year ago I couldn't front crawl a 25m lap, so I'm more than happy to be at the point where I am at all

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I've got the Duisburg 70.3 coming up in a bit more than 2 weeks and have mostly practiced my longer (OW) swims in a wetsuit, assuming that it will be a wetsuit race (just like literally every other year lol)

The ongoing heatwave makes me believe that it may be the first time ever not being a wetsuit allowed race, so I decided to do a stress test without wetsuit today for my confidence.

I've done like 1.5k and it went pretty smooth in terms of heartrate and feeling, but god damn was I slow. My watch missed some laps, but even adding those in I average out at like 2:45-2:50/100m.

Now I know that it's more than enough to get through the swim comfortably, but my wetsuit swims usually averaged out at like 2:20-2:30/100m depending, so we're talking about a good 30 sec/100m slower.

Does that even out in the coming months/years by the time I get better generally or is the wetsuit just the cheatcode it feels like?

We're currently facing the hottest days/weeks ever in central europe and my body is completly shutting down.

I'm trying to fit in training sessions very early, but even at 6-7am it's 25 degrees celsius and sunny as hell already. Since I'm also living in a big city, the heat is stifling with barely any wind.

Running isn't working at all, my pulse is literally 10-15 beats higher and I'm drowning in sweat after 10 mins of running which causes some bad circulation issues.

Swimming still works obviously, so no issue there, but even the bike completly messes up my nutritioning as I easy need another 2 full bottles of water/salt just to cope with my sweating.

I know raceday could also hold this weather, but this is legitimately the hottest ever recorded summer (yet)

Hi,

anyone of you with an idea when the race could be or if it's happening in 2027? Most other races have their dates set including registrations, Kraichgau is still tbd.

I'm wondering because I deferred my start from this year to next year due to surgery, hence why I could use some planning in advance for other races.

Since we will have even more games than during the EC, we decided to create the Watchalong thread again, so people will have a dedicated place to discuss every game.

As the majority of people is still majorly interested in Germany games, Germany will get dedicated match threads as usual.

I just wanted to encourage you to do the surgery, especially if you have constant streps and/or sickness related to it. My tonsils were also really enlarged because of the constant infections.

I'm doing lots of endurance sports these last years and always felt like I have a hard time progressing and felt really unfit most of the time.

Then, I had tonsillits 6x from october to march, which resulted in the desicion to take out my tonsils. Turns out (well obviously) I had developed a chronic tonsillitis and even in the breaks where I felt alright and didn't take antibiotics, I was still technically infected and ill.

It's now more or less 2 months after my surgery and I swear to god I've never felt so amazing in my life. Not only can I breath better, it really just also feels like I'm finally fully healthy. I think I made more progress, sports wise, in these last 6 weeks than I did in a year.

Yeah the healing process kinda sucks but it's so so worth. And I say that as someone that even had a bleeding 5 days in, resulting in another hospital stay.