Author Archives: Sebastian

The Reason I Love this sport!

Are days like this. Not days when you win a race by four minutes, rather days like Sunday where you have to dig so deep to hold on. This is when you realize the limits of your ability. Days when you give 101% and lose. weiterlesen …

state of play

The mile mongoring is officially underway for 2012.  I just got back for a 5 week stint in Fuerte Ventura. weiterlesen …

getting started

7 years ago I first went down to Palamos/CostBrava in Spain for a training camp.  It turned out to be a fantastic training venue and I’d head down for a few weeks hard training over new Years.  weiterlesen …

Ironman Arizona

Most of the german Facebookers have already read the ‘Short’ version of my IM Arazona Blog.  Here is the long version in english.  weiterlesen …

Mid-Season Update

After a great season Debut in the USA, Sebatian ‘Killer’ Kienle packed up ‘Black Death’ headed back to Germany first for some much needed rest and secondly to nail the early season races with serious head to head action with some of the biggest names in Europe (and, therefore the entire sport). weiterlesen …

69.1 NOLA

Unfortunately, the Ironman 70.3 on the weekend turned out to be a 69.1 mile event.  They cancelled the swim due to high winds which prevented the lifeguards and race crews to get out on the water which made it rather unsafe for the competitiors.  I couldn’t believe it as it seemed to be the calmest day since I had arrived.  To make things worse they didn’t even have a plan B in place and were scrambling to come up with something on race morning.  I think the race organizers have to sit together and talk about a plan what to do in such cases. weiterlesen …