hi I want to talk to you boo but but if
consistency was the key took success and
not Thailand I mean I don’t have any
scientific proof or any historic saying
it’s only my own life how I became like
a world-class athlete really related
life when it lots of people already
retired in a 2015-16 season I wanted to
qualify for the Ironman World
Championship in Hawaii and after Ironman
way it’s in September 2015 I played
third and I was in a really good
position for qualifying and then
suddenly on January 5th my employee told
me she wanted to sell her pharmacy to me
that yeah I mean I had already made
plans about racing and had booked
flights to South Africa at the end of
January and at the end of pearl and she
said I want to sell the pharmacy this
year and I kind of think that’s not how
I planned it so since we had no schedule
at the time I thought maybe I can have
both qualify for by race there and on
the pharmacy as well at the end of the
year I mean she knew about my Hawaii
plans well life doesn’t know I never
goes as planned so at the end of January
I got sick and I had to cancel the first
race of the season so the chance wasn’t
qualifying got less but still possible
but February we knew about how much the
pharmacy stores going to cost so my
husband and I set out to see experts on
how much the pharmacy would be worth and
see the bank about talk about the credit
and insurances and the tax accountant
just the things you do when you’re
trying to buy it or in your hair when
you’re wanting a buy a business so
meanwhile doing all those things going
to work I also trained for Ironman South
Africa and a brother about two weeks
before the ways I scheduled my last
major workout
and but since we were short and um
players that morning I went into work in
the morning then came home scheduled a
six hour bike ride I did that and then I
wanted to do another 10k run on top of
that and well it was not 10k it was only
5k because I startled and hit the ground
really bad my hand was hurting
and I couldn’t even when Rome home so I
had to call my husband to pick me up
well it took out I had broken my ring
finger and my middle hand and I needed
surgery to put in pins and had to wear
plastic ass for seven weeks so I had to
cancel the next race so this is not a
good thing if you want to qualify
because you have to gather points and
have to be on top of the world ranking
to get to the World Championship well
even though I’m right-handed I still
went to work for the next several weeks
and I mean I could go work if I want to
train so I wanted to keep training so I
decided I have to go to work as well I
did some running and as you can see I
did some cycling I mean I couldn’t go
out to us so I had to do it indoors and
during that time my employer and I we
met foreman decorations for the pharmacy
or pharmacy store once and since we
didn’t get any results we postponed it
to the next meeting to the middle of May
but then on May Friday the 13th
one day after the pins have gone out of
my hand my employee came to me and said
well I don’t want to sell my pharmacy
store anymore that’s not gonna happen
this year and maybe not in the next five
years I was really devastated at that
moment I couldn’t like I had not seen
this coming and I was I didn’t know what
to feel
what’s a weekend and I cried a lot but
then I thought well I don’t have to bury
the plastic house anymore so I went on
on training
and then on a weekend I decided I quit
the job and go and try to qualify for
Hawaii and try to do an Ironman in
several weeks time so is it possible to
do an Ironman with only 7 weeks of
preparation if I’m talking about
consistency as a key to that success I
mean seven weeks is not a long time and
it’s especially it’s not consistent work
well it’s not been seven weeks it has
been 30 years of consistent work at the
age of seven I started swimming and I
got delegated to sports school after
fourth grade in the former GDR and you
can see the pool and the thing we
trained on and well I from there on I
trained twice a day so that was when I
was 11 years old I said eh and we looked
lots of kilometers of swimming and then
at the age of 16 I stopped swimming
competitively what has happened I swam
three years in a row the 403 and 448 I
did not improve one single second so I
thought I don’t have any talent to get
to become a world-class athlete
especially if you see Francisco phone
items like she was to say it’s the same
age as I was and she swam well what
record and I cooked staying or not for
48 I mean you think that’s really fast
but it’s not if you had a swimmer
however by that time I did not know
anything about the tenth hour our vous
permettez principle and deliberate
practice what I now now if I had known
back then I would not have stopped
swimming because with all the work we
did we did so them in in a group and
with the group dynamics it’s really
really not what you need in one person
so after I stopped swimming I went to
see the world that meant I went to Omaha
Nebraska to spend one high school year
there and it was a great experience and
I actually got back on track liking
sports again I wanted to train and
compete again
but since I stopped swimming before I
went to us they didn’t want me to be
back on the team so I had the option of
swimming twice in the evening and in
during the week and this was not enough
I mean I had gained weight during stage
just as a lot of exchange didn’t do well
everything is a little big over there
and then I started to run and just to
get fit and lose weight and at the at
the local run race
I got casted by the trials lead and so I
joined the triathlon team and trained
for my first triathlon one year I mean
it was a sprint distant back then but I
still trained one year before I actually
went to the start line
and it was a mind changing experience
because I got first off the wall
it’s kind of like I’d not won a race in
five or six years and then I want that
swim part that was really great I mean I
got pass on the bike it’s not that good
but run myself back in the first place
so there is my first trials on and I
already won you can imagine I was really
hooked and it was just the sweet taste
of victory and the thing it ain’t over
till it’s over so I stayed with
triathlon only one year data I qualified
for European Championship for juniors
European Championship and came out of
the water first again and a place
eventually 10th at the end a few weeks
after that German championships were
scheduled and due to the lack of
training and experience I did not finish
that race which meant I would not be
part of a national team because to the
coaches I would seem like a one-hit
wonder because I would outgrow the
juniors and back then there was no I’m
not 23 so it was juniors or adults and
then kind of like what we do be there we
don’t care
so I started started study pharmacy in
October
98 and with the experience of my mom
being unemployed in most of the 1990s
despite being a programmer I mean –
nowadays a programmer is kind like yeah
come on
we got a job for you but back then she
didn’t find any so education was the
most important task to me so I went to
college to stay or to university to
study pharmacy unfair and triathlon was
just a nice hobby to have at that moment
and I started to coach myself from there
on so I learned everything to try an
error I doing my college time I still
wanted to qualify for European champs
but I never worked out again I raced a
few European Cups but usually got
dropped on the bike so my swimming and
running strength would not pay off in
2002 my now husband but then back
foreign boyfriend raised at the Ironman
World Championship in Hawaii and I got
to go with him and saw other ways and it
was so exciting and motivating I mean if
you compare it to tennis a supermodel
how is just the race to be and so I set
up for the net for the next year to
raise an Ironman try to qualify for her
why and well I did my first race I
raised I did a 10 hours and 39 minutes
at Ironman Switzerland it put me barely
an hour behind the first woman across
the line but since I race as an amateur
then in September I passed my final
examinations at university and in
October I became Whitesville champion in
the age group so this was actually
totally unbelievable to me because the
year before I was not able to finish an
Olympic Distance which takes about two
hours on race and also had like in two
weeks time failed the last course at
university so my world had broken the
year before and eyebrows just bothered
it felt like it so in 2004 I raised
another time in Hawaii placing second in
the H group again and then I decided
well give it a try to race as a
professional athlete since I had
finished my studies I could go on and
work part-time as a pharmacist so my
income was taken care of and enjoy
racing around the world but the racing
didn’t go that well as I had planned I
only finished one race in two years and
it was in Wisconsin and it took me 12
hours and 46 minutes to hours to Darden
in my first-ever Iron Man but
nonetheless one year later in 2007 I
qualified as a professional athlete for
Hawaii
I placed 7th at Ironman Lake plays not
7th 11th at Ironman displays it but the
bad thing about it I qualified as a
professional athlete but didn’t get any
prize money because they only paid 10
deep so that’s not really being a
professional athlete I mean so in 2008
the biggest challenge to have change to
our life came our daughter was born and
so we had to change our training system
and we now went on using power meters on
the bike bought and swim ergo meter to
supplement time in the pool so we don’t
have to go to pour and work at home and
11 months after the birth I was big
racing Ironman but the first Ironman I
underestimated the cost of the breast
feeding I stood it so much good bike was
never been barrel on that day I was
hurting a hand
for the 1000 mark to beat but I ended up
in the medical tent because I did not
eat enough my husband who is doing
Ironman as well did a much better job
the one one week later he had missed the
year before 9 hours when we still not
have any kids and a full-time to train
the nine hour mark by two minutes and
then when we did not have that much time
to Train he’s still improved even though
he’d not been pregnant because usually
people say the pregnancy makes you fast
he got faster not being pregnant and he
beat that nine hour mark that day I had
the almost perfect race only two months
later at the Ironman Barcelona I did
nine hours and 23 minutes improving my
personal best by 57 minutes and I got my
first prize money
[Applause]
so all the people silenced that had told
me go back race as an amateur you’re not
gonna make it as professional athlete
and you would never ever get to go fast
enough on your bike no this was gone so
next year I tried to qualify for Hawaii
and the professionals again and I missed
it by 17 seconds but since I don’t like
any what is actually I set up for
another Iron Man four weeks later
swimmers okay just as usual I mean being
a swimmer it’s not going to happen much
on the bike I had a flat tire lost ten
minutes on that course and then I
thought well I have to make up those 10
minutes so I started to run really fast
and I wanted to catch the girl ahead of
me I was making progress picked up five
minutes but then I ended my body went in
to strike I kinda like my mind wanted to
go fast but it’s not a good idea to burn
all your calories all right in the
beginning I suffered from diarrhea and
had to drop out since life goes on we
had another child on October 2011 and I
resigned my job at the pharmacy to chase
the dream to qualify for Hawaii again
which I did I erased seven ironmans and
far five-and-a-half ironmans in the
2013-14 season and I qualified for
Hawaii and I raced there so we now in
for 2014 so I got after the Hawaii
qualification I got put back to the job
and you know what happened that the
pharmacy store so now we’re back on 2016
and still on the question is it possible
to do a really good I remember takes
about nine hours of intense raising with
life on a roller coaster in the last six
months well here I am two days after my
38th birthday at this third line of the
Ironman Frankfort Roach European
Championship
the weather is pretty cold be deaf 11
degrees outside temperature and barely
20 degrees on the bar and in the water
we did swim and swim was slow as
expected I didn’t
have enough training and I have had
goose bumps the whole swim but I didn’t
mind because I didn’t feel cause out of
the water into transition I put on a dry
Jersey just to stay warm
because I knew I’d rather lose two
minutes here and freeze on the bike on
the bike I put on an energy bar right
into my body because I need more energy
when it’s cold out there
I was still chewing the energy bar and
then there was Daniela Reef the reigning
world champion and the side of the road
it turned out she did freeze too much
and put not enough clothes on to me she
was out of the race and then I thought
well it’s a whole new race now everybody
can win so I enjoyed the bike bike right
and at the end of the bike in the last
hour we had headwinds and I actually put
on the strongest hour was the last one
because I saved my energy thinking
there’s a long bike ride and on a DK
it’s gonna take you more than five hours
you don’t need to hurry
the plan was for the van to go out slow
what’s going to happen when you get down
to tower downtown at Frankfurt and
thousands of people are cheering you get
out of transition and you run fast so
here my husband again him and he kept me
updating on the deficit and I saw I kind
of like well I wanted to run slower so I
started on at a decent pace fast but it
still fed it I could run it forever and
he told me I was five minutes away from
fifth place the fifth place would have
put me back in the game for the Hawaii
qualification so I kept going slow so
after 10k I had made up like one minute
and I just kept the surfed off be
patient be patient your time is going to
come be patient and all I concentrated
on was eating and running check your
heart rate it’s not a go up not down
just stay there so by half marathon
little past half marathon
I passed the girl 4/5 and 30k I was
already in fourth and that was the place
I was I had already decided it’s now
time to push now you can go fast it’s
not going to happen anything that much
anymore
so shortly after 33 K 2 K my husband was
again and he told me I’m about two
minutes away from third only two
kilometers away
I’d like 34k I passed the girl for
thought
now I had TV camera with me and a
cyclist and they were telling me I was
kind of going fast and I actually saw
the girl in front of me she was second
and when really really hard and it still
seemed to take forever but I passed her
at like 7:30 8 K and surely after that
was my all excited and nervous husband
again and what did he say to me watch
your step
and keep eating it see me failure and he
was afraid that I would fall apart well
I didn’t I came in second which means I
got wise what vice European champion and
German champion I had goose bumps all
the way you can see it’s not only from
the core that’s from the excitement as
well
only one year later on I had one more
task to do I still wanted to go under
nine hours I mean I had there undone I’m
not 10 hours in 2009 in Barcelona so I
went back to Barcelona and I did arrive
at 8:57 and that was at the age of 39
the two kids working as a pharmacist and
well lots of up and downs so you have to
keep on your dream don’t stop believin
thank you [Applause]
consistency was the key took success and
not Thailand I mean I don’t have any
scientific proof or any historic saying
it’s only my own life how I became like
a world-class athlete really related
life when it lots of people already
retired in a 2015-16 season I wanted to
qualify for the Ironman World
Championship in Hawaii and after Ironman
way it’s in September 2015 I played
third and I was in a really good
position for qualifying and then
suddenly on January 5th my employee told
me she wanted to sell her pharmacy to me
that yeah I mean I had already made
plans about racing and had booked
flights to South Africa at the end of
January and at the end of pearl and she
said I want to sell the pharmacy this
year and I kind of think that’s not how
I planned it so since we had no schedule
at the time I thought maybe I can have
both qualify for by race there and on
the pharmacy as well at the end of the
year I mean she knew about my Hawaii
plans well life doesn’t know I never
goes as planned so at the end of January
I got sick and I had to cancel the first
race of the season so the chance wasn’t
qualifying got less but still possible
but February we knew about how much the
pharmacy stores going to cost so my
husband and I set out to see experts on
how much the pharmacy would be worth and
see the bank about talk about the credit
and insurances and the tax accountant
just the things you do when you’re
trying to buy it or in your hair when
you’re wanting a buy a business so
meanwhile doing all those things going
to work I also trained for Ironman South
Africa and a brother about two weeks
before the ways I scheduled my last
major workout
and but since we were short and um
players that morning I went into work in
the morning then came home scheduled a
six hour bike ride I did that and then I
wanted to do another 10k run on top of
that and well it was not 10k it was only
5k because I startled and hit the ground
really bad my hand was hurting
and I couldn’t even when Rome home so I
had to call my husband to pick me up
well it took out I had broken my ring
finger and my middle hand and I needed
surgery to put in pins and had to wear
plastic ass for seven weeks so I had to
cancel the next race so this is not a
good thing if you want to qualify
because you have to gather points and
have to be on top of the world ranking
to get to the World Championship well
even though I’m right-handed I still
went to work for the next several weeks
and I mean I could go work if I want to
train so I wanted to keep training so I
decided I have to go to work as well I
did some running and as you can see I
did some cycling I mean I couldn’t go
out to us so I had to do it indoors and
during that time my employer and I we
met foreman decorations for the pharmacy
or pharmacy store once and since we
didn’t get any results we postponed it
to the next meeting to the middle of May
but then on May Friday the 13th
one day after the pins have gone out of
my hand my employee came to me and said
well I don’t want to sell my pharmacy
store anymore that’s not gonna happen
this year and maybe not in the next five
years I was really devastated at that
moment I couldn’t like I had not seen
this coming and I was I didn’t know what
to feel
what’s a weekend and I cried a lot but
then I thought well I don’t have to bury
the plastic house anymore so I went on
on training
and then on a weekend I decided I quit
the job and go and try to qualify for
Hawaii and try to do an Ironman in
several weeks time so is it possible to
do an Ironman with only 7 weeks of
preparation if I’m talking about
consistency as a key to that success I
mean seven weeks is not a long time and
it’s especially it’s not consistent work
well it’s not been seven weeks it has
been 30 years of consistent work at the
age of seven I started swimming and I
got delegated to sports school after
fourth grade in the former GDR and you
can see the pool and the thing we
trained on and well I from there on I
trained twice a day so that was when I
was 11 years old I said eh and we looked
lots of kilometers of swimming and then
at the age of 16 I stopped swimming
competitively what has happened I swam
three years in a row the 403 and 448 I
did not improve one single second so I
thought I don’t have any talent to get
to become a world-class athlete
especially if you see Francisco phone
items like she was to say it’s the same
age as I was and she swam well what
record and I cooked staying or not for
48 I mean you think that’s really fast
but it’s not if you had a swimmer
however by that time I did not know
anything about the tenth hour our vous
permettez principle and deliberate
practice what I now now if I had known
back then I would not have stopped
swimming because with all the work we
did we did so them in in a group and
with the group dynamics it’s really
really not what you need in one person
so after I stopped swimming I went to
see the world that meant I went to Omaha
Nebraska to spend one high school year
there and it was a great experience and
I actually got back on track liking
sports again I wanted to train and
compete again
but since I stopped swimming before I
went to us they didn’t want me to be
back on the team so I had the option of
swimming twice in the evening and in
during the week and this was not enough
I mean I had gained weight during stage
just as a lot of exchange didn’t do well
everything is a little big over there
and then I started to run and just to
get fit and lose weight and at the at
the local run race
I got casted by the trials lead and so I
joined the triathlon team and trained
for my first triathlon one year I mean
it was a sprint distant back then but I
still trained one year before I actually
went to the start line
and it was a mind changing experience
because I got first off the wall
it’s kind of like I’d not won a race in
five or six years and then I want that
swim part that was really great I mean I
got pass on the bike it’s not that good
but run myself back in the first place
so there is my first trials on and I
already won you can imagine I was really
hooked and it was just the sweet taste
of victory and the thing it ain’t over
till it’s over so I stayed with
triathlon only one year data I qualified
for European Championship for juniors
European Championship and came out of
the water first again and a place
eventually 10th at the end a few weeks
after that German championships were
scheduled and due to the lack of
training and experience I did not finish
that race which meant I would not be
part of a national team because to the
coaches I would seem like a one-hit
wonder because I would outgrow the
juniors and back then there was no I’m
not 23 so it was juniors or adults and
then kind of like what we do be there we
don’t care
so I started started study pharmacy in
October
98 and with the experience of my mom
being unemployed in most of the 1990s
despite being a programmer I mean –
nowadays a programmer is kind like yeah
come on
we got a job for you but back then she
didn’t find any so education was the
most important task to me so I went to
college to stay or to university to
study pharmacy unfair and triathlon was
just a nice hobby to have at that moment
and I started to coach myself from there
on so I learned everything to try an
error I doing my college time I still
wanted to qualify for European champs
but I never worked out again I raced a
few European Cups but usually got
dropped on the bike so my swimming and
running strength would not pay off in
2002 my now husband but then back
foreign boyfriend raised at the Ironman
World Championship in Hawaii and I got
to go with him and saw other ways and it
was so exciting and motivating I mean if
you compare it to tennis a supermodel
how is just the race to be and so I set
up for the net for the next year to
raise an Ironman try to qualify for her
why and well I did my first race I
raised I did a 10 hours and 39 minutes
at Ironman Switzerland it put me barely
an hour behind the first woman across
the line but since I race as an amateur
then in September I passed my final
examinations at university and in
October I became Whitesville champion in
the age group so this was actually
totally unbelievable to me because the
year before I was not able to finish an
Olympic Distance which takes about two
hours on race and also had like in two
weeks time failed the last course at
university so my world had broken the
year before and eyebrows just bothered
it felt like it so in 2004 I raised
another time in Hawaii placing second in
the H group again and then I decided
well give it a try to race as a
professional athlete since I had
finished my studies I could go on and
work part-time as a pharmacist so my
income was taken care of and enjoy
racing around the world but the racing
didn’t go that well as I had planned I
only finished one race in two years and
it was in Wisconsin and it took me 12
hours and 46 minutes to hours to Darden
in my first-ever Iron Man but
nonetheless one year later in 2007 I
qualified as a professional athlete for
Hawaii
I placed 7th at Ironman Lake plays not
7th 11th at Ironman displays it but the
bad thing about it I qualified as a
professional athlete but didn’t get any
prize money because they only paid 10
deep so that’s not really being a
professional athlete I mean so in 2008
the biggest challenge to have change to
our life came our daughter was born and
so we had to change our training system
and we now went on using power meters on
the bike bought and swim ergo meter to
supplement time in the pool so we don’t
have to go to pour and work at home and
11 months after the birth I was big
racing Ironman but the first Ironman I
underestimated the cost of the breast
feeding I stood it so much good bike was
never been barrel on that day I was
hurting a hand
for the 1000 mark to beat but I ended up
in the medical tent because I did not
eat enough my husband who is doing
Ironman as well did a much better job
the one one week later he had missed the
year before 9 hours when we still not
have any kids and a full-time to train
the nine hour mark by two minutes and
then when we did not have that much time
to Train he’s still improved even though
he’d not been pregnant because usually
people say the pregnancy makes you fast
he got faster not being pregnant and he
beat that nine hour mark that day I had
the almost perfect race only two months
later at the Ironman Barcelona I did
nine hours and 23 minutes improving my
personal best by 57 minutes and I got my
first prize money
[Applause]
so all the people silenced that had told
me go back race as an amateur you’re not
gonna make it as professional athlete
and you would never ever get to go fast
enough on your bike no this was gone so
next year I tried to qualify for Hawaii
and the professionals again and I missed
it by 17 seconds but since I don’t like
any what is actually I set up for
another Iron Man four weeks later
swimmers okay just as usual I mean being
a swimmer it’s not going to happen much
on the bike I had a flat tire lost ten
minutes on that course and then I
thought well I have to make up those 10
minutes so I started to run really fast
and I wanted to catch the girl ahead of
me I was making progress picked up five
minutes but then I ended my body went in
to strike I kinda like my mind wanted to
go fast but it’s not a good idea to burn
all your calories all right in the
beginning I suffered from diarrhea and
had to drop out since life goes on we
had another child on October 2011 and I
resigned my job at the pharmacy to chase
the dream to qualify for Hawaii again
which I did I erased seven ironmans and
far five-and-a-half ironmans in the
2013-14 season and I qualified for
Hawaii and I raced there so we now in
for 2014 so I got after the Hawaii
qualification I got put back to the job
and you know what happened that the
pharmacy store so now we’re back on 2016
and still on the question is it possible
to do a really good I remember takes
about nine hours of intense raising with
life on a roller coaster in the last six
months well here I am two days after my
38th birthday at this third line of the
Ironman Frankfort Roach European
Championship
the weather is pretty cold be deaf 11
degrees outside temperature and barely
20 degrees on the bar and in the water
we did swim and swim was slow as
expected I didn’t
have enough training and I have had
goose bumps the whole swim but I didn’t
mind because I didn’t feel cause out of
the water into transition I put on a dry
Jersey just to stay warm
because I knew I’d rather lose two
minutes here and freeze on the bike on
the bike I put on an energy bar right
into my body because I need more energy
when it’s cold out there
I was still chewing the energy bar and
then there was Daniela Reef the reigning
world champion and the side of the road
it turned out she did freeze too much
and put not enough clothes on to me she
was out of the race and then I thought
well it’s a whole new race now everybody
can win so I enjoyed the bike bike right
and at the end of the bike in the last
hour we had headwinds and I actually put
on the strongest hour was the last one
because I saved my energy thinking
there’s a long bike ride and on a DK
it’s gonna take you more than five hours
you don’t need to hurry
the plan was for the van to go out slow
what’s going to happen when you get down
to tower downtown at Frankfurt and
thousands of people are cheering you get
out of transition and you run fast so
here my husband again him and he kept me
updating on the deficit and I saw I kind
of like well I wanted to run slower so I
started on at a decent pace fast but it
still fed it I could run it forever and
he told me I was five minutes away from
fifth place the fifth place would have
put me back in the game for the Hawaii
qualification so I kept going slow so
after 10k I had made up like one minute
and I just kept the surfed off be
patient be patient your time is going to
come be patient and all I concentrated
on was eating and running check your
heart rate it’s not a go up not down
just stay there so by half marathon
little past half marathon
I passed the girl 4/5 and 30k I was
already in fourth and that was the place
I was I had already decided it’s now
time to push now you can go fast it’s
not going to happen anything that much
anymore
so shortly after 33 K 2 K my husband was
again and he told me I’m about two
minutes away from third only two
kilometers away
I’d like 34k I passed the girl for
thought
now I had TV camera with me and a
cyclist and they were telling me I was
kind of going fast and I actually saw
the girl in front of me she was second
and when really really hard and it still
seemed to take forever but I passed her
at like 7:30 8 K and surely after that
was my all excited and nervous husband
again and what did he say to me watch
your step
and keep eating it see me failure and he
was afraid that I would fall apart well
I didn’t I came in second which means I
got wise what vice European champion and
German champion I had goose bumps all
the way you can see it’s not only from
the core that’s from the excitement as
well
only one year later on I had one more
task to do I still wanted to go under
nine hours I mean I had there undone I’m
not 10 hours in 2009 in Barcelona so I
went back to Barcelona and I did arrive
at 8:57 and that was at the age of 39
the two kids working as a pharmacist and
well lots of up and downs so you have to
keep on your dream don’t stop believin
thank you [Applause]
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