Living in Germany...hiking a mountain with Brad and Jenny

Brad, Jenny (JR's teammate and wife), JR and I hiking up to the Baumgartenschneid Mountain:


After about half an hour of going through the forest: An opening and a restaurant. But it is too early for us to eat and drink.

The leaves made everything look so pretty and it smelled really good in the forest.

On top of the mountain. Every mountain has a Gipfelkreuz, a cross to show you that you have reached the highest point.

The view from the top of the mountains. The really big mountains are further into the Alps. The view was great.

Lake Tegernsee, this is towards Munich.

Crazy how this church was built onto a rock years ago!!! MANY YEARS!!!

The hike was great and luckily not too long. If you don't hike that much in the mountains, it is better to start out slow.

Angi

Living in Germany

So I have been living in Germany for about 2 months now. I already had some visitors (Brad and Jenny-JR's teammate and his wife) and it was great. Off course JR is here too. We have had a lot of luck with the weather. It snowed early September, but now it is foggy in the morning, and sunny in the afternoon but still pretty cold.





This is Lake Tegernsee, where I currently live.


The Alps, just across the border to Austria.



Bavarians drink a LOT of beer here (even in the morning, a Bavarian breakfast consits of Beer, Sausages and Prezels). When you look at a menu, you see this:
Water 2 Euros
Applejuice 2 Euros
Beer 1,80 Euros

FUNNY!!! And you see a ton of different kinds of sausage!!! :-)

More updates and stories about living in the Alps will follow.
Servus Angi

Look what I just found...

I was just looking at some youtube videos and here is what I found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXN4Bkgce6E&feature=related
It is a video of the guys finishing at the Oceanside 70.3, and...when they finish you will see a female running out of the transition with a grey top and black shorts and sunglasses. That's me!!!

Racing season

JR and I have been doing a lot of racing lately-he has been all over the US to race his road bike and I have been racing here in AZ. Both of us have had good results lately. I just got back from the Deuces Wild Triathlon in Show Low, where I was able to win the women's race by 6 minutes. I also won the "Triple Crown Challenge" (sponsored by Genuine Innovations) , which consists of 3 races -Tempe International Triathlon, Lake Sahuarita Triathlon and the Deuces Wild Triathlon. It is 3 weekends of racing in a row, but each one of them was a lot of fun!!!
JR is racing in Philadelphia this weekend, I might be racing at the Tribal Triathlon at Lake Pleasant.
Today was my first ever 6km pool day!!! And it was fun :-)

Alright, more updates coming soon,
Angi

News

Training has been going good for both JR and me. JR will be racing at the Mt. Hood race this week. Today i a 1.7 mile prologue. I will be racing at the Tempe International Triathlon-and it has been about 100 degrees in Phoenix... :-O

More updates coming soon,
Angi

Oceanside 70.3 pictures

Getting ready for the swim in the pacific ocean!!!

In T1.

On the bike-still feeling good and enjoying the race.

On the run-still feeling good!!!


Yeah, I did it!!!

Tour of the Gila

JR left yesterday to travel to Silver City, New Mexico to race in the Tour of the Gila. The race is a 5 day Stage Race with a TON of climbing!!! Check out the race bible for all the race courses and all the profiles: http://www.tourofthegila.com/register/2008_race_bible.pdf .
I am staying in Flagstaff :-)

GOOD LUCK TO JR IN THE STAGE RACE!!!

Angi