The biggest Bierathlon event in Europe!! We hauled down to Zurich bright eyed a bushy tailed on Saturday morning arriving in plenty of time to scope out the course and plan our race. Not such a simple feat as there are so many variables in such an event, and in the end it really came down to tactics.
As you can see from the pics, we were looking goooooooooooooooooooood and were very ready on many levels to dominate this event.
As far as costumes go, however, we were certainly outdone as you will see on bierathlon.ch when the race pix come out.

Anyway, after a solid warm up in the balmy weather we were on the startline and fired up. We decided to go one lap, without drinking.. uh wait, i will give you run down on the rules and the course first: 5 laps with one drinking zone per lap. Teams of two must drink a total of 10 300ml beers in the drinking zone, without puking or spilling the fluids, pretty straight forward, you can drink the beer whichever lap you want but must be in the drinking zone. We were nicely placed in 4th through the first lap, running very steady, and decided to keep going so as to gain control of the race from the front. We stopped after lap 2 and drank one, and we were still just ahead of a team but they were also one beer ahead. We showed our strength in the last 2 laps as we stayed on one-beer, one lap pace after that. We came the last drink station in the lead with 4 beer in the case. We bottoms-ed up those in good time and crossed the line in around 29min for the 6.85km just edging out another team from Cologne who moved up through the field in Stealth, almost stealing our much much cherished victory, also holding the contents of our stomachs until well within the finish area.
A great show of offseason form and we are proud to join the ranks of Jurgen Zack, Norman Stadler, Steffen Riesen, and Ronnie Schildknecht as Zurich Bierathlon Champions.
A long afterparty followed where you can only imagine the atmosphere.. good times had by all!!
pix to come but you can find some at Magic’s fb page. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=38287&id=1433357638 and will be lots on www.bierathlon.ch and on my flickr asap.

Seasons greetings!

oh by the way, i was also at my Coaches lab (Professional Endurance Team) for some testing on Thursay and my offseason form was also verified and training will start to step up in January.