Let’s talk about TSRf triathlon TT bike.

Dare bikes are from Taiwan. They offer road, triathlon and gravel bikes. I started using my first Dare TSRf triathlon bike in 2019. The first time I saw and touched it. I was shocked about the precise quality. 

My main race this year was Ironman Taiwan. To avoid going to Asia for only 1 race, we planned a short Asia-tour beforehand.

Not many triathletes can afford to get a decent massage daily or even weekly. Not to mention getting it after each training.

I was really eager to compete. I was in good shape and I was curious about my performance.

After some hectic weeks, I was off to Ironman Austria at the foot of the Alps. Ready for my 1st real ironman in Europe. 

Back to Europe, after a long period in Australian. The first serious race of this season was on my way home.

Jellyfish adventures in the Philippines. Or how NOT to start a new season. Enjoy the story of one of my most memorable races.

2017 was a tough year for me. “Mistakes are made and lessons are learned”. See my vlog about the last race of the season.

Back to the Island of Penghu. Last year, after a long and successful preparation period, I joined the Taiwan Ironman with great hopes.

Asia again. My year 2017 is different from the last couple of years. I spent winter in Europe, which made my preparation more difficult.

During the whole European summer I focused on Ironman Taiwan. In late September, I flew to Asia in a great shape. 

While having options A and B, you should always have C and D, or even more.  But the most important is to set only one goal!

Unlike last year, when I was coming from warm Australia, this time I was traveling to the peninsula from Europe.

Hard work finally paid off. I jumped into the world of elite athletes. Traveled in amazing places, but always missed home…

The chaotic trainings and competitions did not lead to any good. I got to one of the lowest points of my life. You knwo when things go wrong and it seems that all of our hard work is wasted? I had that.. but then I stood up and continued.

  Much has happened while I got to the triathlon world elite from my hometown in Transylvania. I dreamed big and achieved even more. Persistence and ambitions are the path to success, lets go along it together.

After the last race in Indonesia, I returned to Thanyapura, Phuket, where I continued my training camp. I had two weeks till my next race in Vietnam. These two weeks were good for recovery, but we could not build anything constructive in the workout. Swimming and running went well, but I felt tired and dull on the bike. The last week I had some very active exercises to energize myself, I started feeling stronger and hoped to do a good race in Vietnam. I would like to thank Thanyapura for the excellent conditions and help I received while training there! Great place, great people!

After the race in Taiwan, I traveled to the island of Phuket in Thailand, where a one-month training camp was waiting for me. I’ve heard a lot about this place, a lot of my friends live in the so-called triathlon paradise, Thanyapura. I was really curious about the place and wanted to try it myself. The Thanyapura Sports Centre is an isolated area on a beautiful island. There are two pools, a 500m running track, a super gym, ice bath and everything that may be necessary to prepare for a professional. Not to mention the good atmosphere of the group rides and the cool people.

A new beginning. You often get the feeling that you are stuck at one point and can not go forward. Well, then you must figure out something. You must change! I also had this feeling towards the end of last year.

– After the last race of a very long season. – The last “real” race of the season was in Taiwan at the beginning of November, which I trained a lot for. However I felt tired during the preparation period. Then came the last race after the last race in the first weekend of December. So I finished the year with an Ironman 70.3 in the Middle East, in Bahrain. I had absolutely no energy to prepare for this race.

I spent the beginning of November in Kenting in Taiwan just as in the past two years. I love this place, it almost feels like going home. I really like the organisers of the Ironman 70.3 event, who have always carried out a very good job. In this race you can feel that the race is for the athletes and not the athletes for the race.

Trip in South Korea. Its very rare to have two Ironman races in two weeks time in one country, but this time it happened in South Korea. The first race should have been held a few months ago, but due to political instability it was postponed, so there were two Ironman 70.3 races organised very close to each other. Me and some other athletes took the opportunity to travel to two competitions at the same time.

I was glad to race at home again and attend the half-ironman race in Oradea. I do not compete much in Romania, but this race is a very important part of my season. I am always very happy to come back because of the great organization and I really enjoy the course. Last year I was not in a great condition, but this year I was much more prepared.

It’s hard to decide what to say about this competition. Even though three days have passed since the race and I had plenty of time to think about it (since I traveled through the world to get home), I could not create the full picture about the race yet.

It was the first time that Taiwan held a full Ironman race. I planned to participate in a full Ironman this year, and chose the Ironman Taiwan, because going to a race in this country is almost as going home, so starting a racing season with it was a great choice for me.

Bahraini megmérettetés előtt, két indonéziai versenyen indultam, ahol fáradtan és kissé betegen versenyeztem. Ez nagyon megviselt, el sem tudtam képzelni öt nappal a verseny előtt, hogy elindulok rajta.

Másodjára indultam a Taiwan Ironman 70.3-an. Tavaly egy bravúros 4. hellyel végeztem. Nagyon örültem, hogy idén is részt vehettem a versenyen,  a rendezőknek köszönhetően!

Az én távom egyértelműen a hosszú tavú triatlon,ezen belül is a leghosszabb táv az ironman. Ami 3,8 km úszásból, 180 km kerékpárból és 42 km futásból áll. Az elmúlt években ennek a távnak a felén indultam. Egy éve döntöttem el, hogy itt az idő belekóstolni abba a távba, amire hosszú évek óta készülök.

Ezelőtt egy évvel épp az indonéziai dzsungelben gyilkoltam le magam, amikor kaptam egy levelet Kropkó Péter ironman legendától, hogy tervez egy világeseményt Budapesten és jó lenne, hogy ha én lennék a verseny erdélyi „nagykövete”.

Kezdem egy kisebb történettel: 16-17 évesen elhatároztam, hogy amikor elérem a minimum korhatárt elindulok az Ironman-en. Így is történt, 19 évesen elindultam életem első és mostanig egyetlen teljes távomon. Persze, akkor még azt sem tudtam mit csinálok, talán azért is volt könnyű.

Végre itthon!  (: Nagyon jó másfél év után ismét itthon lenni és közel két év után ismét itthon versenyezni.  Külön öröm, hogy a hazai visszatérésemet az egyik legjobb versenyen tehettem meg. Szeretem ezt a versenyt rendezésileg nagyon jó, a pálya pazar, a szervezők nagyon ambíciósak és segítőkészek. 

I was looking forward to the race “Challenge Philippines”. I arrived in Subic three day before the race. The travel was long, house to house was more than one day. Compressport R2 help me a lot in the travel and also in the recovery of my leg. I had my accommodation in Subic Homes, with most of the pro athletes. It was a perfect place for the training and preparation for the race.

My first competition in the new season it was Metaman half-ironman in Indonesia. This race is the second largest prize to the date for triathlon event in the word.

My first competition in Australia. In Australia it is the end of the Triathlon season, but for me it was the first competition this year. For my first competition I chose the Ultimate triathlon in Batemans Bay. The distances were 2km swim-120km (hard course) bike-20km run. My fear was the bike, because coming from home (Transylvania) I couldn’t train on road at all for a few months.

Az idei utolsó versenyem és egyben az utolsó nagy versenyem volt az olaszországi hosszú távú duatlon világkupa Lecco-i állomása. Az elmúlt hetekben megérkezett az ősz, így egy picit nehezebbé tette a felkészülést, de azért jól sikerült a végső szakasza.

Miután a Nagyváradi félironman kudarcosan sikerült és történt egy-két nem szép dolog is, volt bennem pár tüske, így elhatároztam, hogy a Bukaresti Triatlon Challenge versenyen mindent megteszek, hogy jól sikerüljön. A bukaresti versenyt viszont elhalasztották és átrakták Mamaiara.

A már szokásos második hely. Igaz most ezzel a második hellyel nagy hiányérzetem nem lehet. Már csak az elmúlt hétből kiindulva gondoltam, hogy nem most fog megtörni a második helyes hegemónia, maximum negatív értelemben borulhatott volna, de szerencsére még egy gyenge és rossz állapotban is “könnyedén” sikerült a második pozíciót megszerezni.

Habár sok gondolat jár bennem, nem is tudom hol kezdjem? …. Jól sikerült felkészülés után szerda délután érkeztünk Botival és barátnőjével, Évával Nagyváradra, ahol már csak pályabejárási és pihenési feladataim voltak. 

A verseny előtti éjszaka szörnyű volt, annyira stresszes voltam, hogy nem tudtam elaludni. Nem tudtam az agyamnak megálljt parancsolni, folyamatosan csak filóztam. Reggel hat órakor csengett az óra és nem túl pihenten ébredtem. Gyors reggeli pakolás, majd irány a verseny.

Csütörtökön indultunk Hanjnikával Marosvásárhelyről Dortmundba. A repülőn semmi kavarodás nem volt szerencsére. A dortmundi reptéren az autókölcsönzőben viszont már annál inkább.