Last week we got the "call for results" from the BENELUX team captain Edward. There is no qualification, the nomination will be a round table decision. There are 170 applicants and only 17 places. Due to my long lasting shoulder injury I have no swimming results since two years. And to be honest, I recognized that I'm a cyclist, not a swimmer, and if not a cyclist, than a triathlete, and if not a triathlete than I'm a runner.
I sent all my results from 2013, two sprint distance triathlons, one mountain time trial race and the last result from yesterday, a 10k road run.
My last Half-Marathon was some years ago, my best time 1:39 or 1:38 something. If I take in consideration that I weight less and that I'm in a much better shape and focus my training on the 21 km race, a time around 1:25 should be realistic.
It would be great to blog again about the preparation for and the Allianz Sports itself and to meet all the people who contacted me over this web site.
Now the only thing I can do is waiting. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
Monday, November 11, 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Be-Ne-Lux
A few days ago we got the information that Luxembourg doesn't get his own team, instead we will be part of the new BeNeLux team (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). 2010 in Hungary we (Vanessa and myself) have been the Lux part of the BeLux team. I believe we were eleven plus Edward, our team captain.
Now it seems, that the central organization team detected, that the team from the Netherlands was bigger than the usual rate of athletes per employees. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it works as follows: At a given point in time the organization team takes the number of employees of Allianz S.E. on one hand and the number of athletes allowed for the next games on the other hand. The ratio between both is the percentage for each country or region. That means that countries with a lot of Allianz employees can send a big team to the games (like e.g. Germany). A country with only a few employes can send probably only one or it will be aggregated with other countries in the region (like Luxembourg).
In the past, Netherlands sent 25 athletes. Much more than Allianz employes peoples in this country (probably). The new number is now 19 (!) for Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg togehter. 19 instead of 36! So you can imagine, the qualification will be very hard.
The only two sports where I have a chance not to stultify myself are swimming and running. But I have no results who can prove my competitiveness. This year I cycled and made Triathlons, but no Half-Marathons and no real Swimming. So it seems, I have to leave Zürich out.
But the hope dies last. I'll keep you posted.
Now it seems, that the central organization team detected, that the team from the Netherlands was bigger than the usual rate of athletes per employees. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it works as follows: At a given point in time the organization team takes the number of employees of Allianz S.E. on one hand and the number of athletes allowed for the next games on the other hand. The ratio between both is the percentage for each country or region. That means that countries with a lot of Allianz employees can send a big team to the games (like e.g. Germany). A country with only a few employes can send probably only one or it will be aggregated with other countries in the region (like Luxembourg).
In the past, Netherlands sent 25 athletes. Much more than Allianz employes peoples in this country (probably). The new number is now 19 (!) for Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg togehter. 19 instead of 36! So you can imagine, the qualification will be very hard.
The only two sports where I have a chance not to stultify myself are swimming and running. But I have no results who can prove my competitiveness. This year I cycled and made Triathlons, but no Half-Marathons and no real Swimming. So it seems, I have to leave Zürich out.
But the hope dies last. I'll keep you posted.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Qualification for Zürich
Today I found out that the registration process for the next Allianz Games 2014 in Zurich is open and I registered myself immediately. Not sure so far how the process will be for the BeLux team and if there will be a joined BeLux team at all.
Unfortunaly cycling is again not part of the allianz games :-( . So I registered for swimming and the half marathon. 2014 I will celebrate my 40th birthday, that means I have to swim only 50m sprints. I checked for freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly.
Unfortunaly cycling is again not part of the allianz games :-( . So I registered for swimming and the half marathon. 2014 I will celebrate my 40th birthday, that means I have to swim only 50m sprints. I checked for freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly.
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