Angi's own blog

Angi has her own blog now. It is about her training and her development going into the 2009 season in which she will compete as a professional triathlete!!! Check it out for updastes and feel free to leave comments-funny ones, stupid ones, encouraging ones...:-)
it is:
www.angela-axmann.blogspot.com

SNOW and SPINNING

Yippie, we finally have snow. Right now it is in the mountains only, but on Saturday it is supposed to snow down here too.

I brought JR to the airport yesterday to send him back to the US :-) He had a really nice person at the check in...unbelievable...nice people at the airport!!! I went back home, slept a little bit and went to teach my classes: Flexi Bar and Spinning. Soooooooooooooo much fun!!! I love to teach classes. The today I had two Lactate tests in a row, everything went well, the blood that I tried to get out of the people came out nicely and both people were able to push themselves to a very high wattage. I have one more tomorrow, again on an Ergometer. I am really excited-testing people is sooo much fun. I will get a portable lactate machine, so if anyone needs a lactate test, let me know and I can probably give you a great deal. And everyone should know that lactate tests are very important to figure out training zones!!! So if you are serious about training and competing...lactate tests.

Tonight I tought another spinning class and we did a 20 min. intervall and some time trialing!!! That was fun, I am getting paid to train:-)

JR is in Tucson right now, at El Tour De Tucson, in the desert, crazy how it can be cold here and summer like temps there...

Angi

I am a little heartbroken...:-(

Today is the 70.3 World Championship race in Clearwater, Florida...and I am not there even though I qualified!!!
Since I moved to Germany to take a full time job that includes some 40-60 hour work weeks, weired hours and also weekends where I have to work, I have not had enough time to train. Another reason is that the pool hours are so strange that I cannot go swimming every day. They close at 6pm, I get off work at 9pm, they are closed from 12-3 pm, that is when I have time to train,...
Oh well, I got sad not to be there and to watch it online...Every athlete's goal is to make it to Worlds or something like Worlds. I made it and couldn't go :-(
One thing is for sure: I will try to qualify again, and I will be there, and I will kick butt!!! SO WATCH OUT!!!

Angi

The nice weather is over

I think the nice days here in the Alps are over. We have already had some snow, it went away again and it ended up being unnaturally warm lately. Today I ran in shorts and ashirt and it was beautiful outside!!! But it is evening now and it has cooled off...well, we will see tomorrow. I will be running before work, so I am already prepared to run with a hat on. Normally at this time of the year there is snow and the ski season shoudl have started already...mhhh global warming!?!?!?

I also had swimming on my plan today, but...holiday in Bavaria, pools are closed. It is a holiday that the rest of Germany has never heard off:-)

I can't believe it is already November, Christmas is just around the corner.

That is it for now, more to come tomorrow, snow, rain, sun? We will see...

Something about going swimming in this area...:-)

Soooo, I went swimming many times in Bad Toelz already. There are closer pools but almost everything here is with under water massage jets and hot tub and sauna, so not great for practicing when a jet is blowing in your face under water and the loud noise of those jets...
So back to Bad Toelz I thought. It is a 25 meter pool, nothing special about it. Yesterday, there were probably 20 people in the water. GREAT...how am I supposed to swim here and relax... but OK, I made the best out of it and just tought that this is good practice for swimming in open water. Germans are very funny, they swim and they don't really care if people want to practice or if people are training seriousely...they just swim all over the place.
In the end I made it without bruises:-) And I ended up doing a continous swim with looking up and a lot of sighting!!!

But I have to admit, the pool in Flagstaff was awesome compared to this one. 50 meters, most of the time you get your own lane!!! NICE...

So today I wanted to go swimming again, I was excited for it, but the pool closed at 6 pm and that was when I got off work... GRRR

I will try again tomorrow, when I have my 4 hour break at work!!! Yippie!!!

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