My big day yesterday – Ironman Frankfurt – turned out to be a huge offday.. Starting my swim with some (usual 😉) panic attacks before finding my good pace. Entering T1 after 1u04min, not bad but with 4000m on my Garmin, it could have been better.. Time to jump on my bike off to the City of Frankfurt to start the 2 lap course. Couldn’t find my good legs from the beginning, had a hard time pushing my watts and the feeling just wasn’t there. Hoped for a better 2nd lap but in the end it even went worse.. With a possible retake in my mind I decided it would be a smarter choice not to start running this time. This was just not what I trained for all those months.. Too bad, but I believe setbacks do help to come back stronger. Not only physically but mentally as well. Something I definitely need to work on.. Time to analyse some things really well before planning the rest of my season. I will be back! 💪
Elien Janssen 