the goal was to complete the different challenges and the shortest amount of time and i believe it or not this contest has been gaining in popularity in recent years . you're watching the w. news up next is reporter with a look at a top german triathlete i'm married to evanston thanks for watching. carefully i don't know at least suited me. to be a good. discovery

. lead. subscribe to. documentary. sébastien that is one of germany's top triathletes trying very hard and competes against the world's best athletes in their arms you need to work hard every day i think so you have even a very good chance of making it to the finish on the hope before the off. the bus down on the italian alps and the video training for the upcoming trial phones the season in mid october he'll compete in the morning i am out rachel swim 4 kilometers cycle 100. easy kilometers and then run

a full marathon. sebastien is talking with his wife christina training phonied some iron man in 10 days' time but not everything is going to plan. in order for the other day i was on the cycle track which was really busy someone was coming towards me and i stepped out of the way it on to the skirt with my right foot when i twisted my ankle really badly and then i thought ok that's it i won't be doing any sport for at least a year in this. fortunately he only strained a ligament. in the middle of the story well you can still see the

injury on my right foot is a bit taller. so this really doesn't bode well for the new iron man. it's this case i was planning on doing a few tough long distance runs to train. but that's not possible now so i'll miss out on 4 or 5 workout sessions up the i'm dieting. so instead sebastian is trying to regain stability in his foot by exercising baffert. he's reorganized his training schedule to allow for his injury. now he's all about perfecting his running technique. each day sebastian engages until after 3 triathlon disciplines swimming cycling all running . after which he hits the gym he usually spends 8 hours training every day.

over the past months he's built up his muscles now he trains to keep his fitness levels up. so i you've got to make sure you're not continuously strengthening your muscles is all. you have to use light weights to keep your muscles in shape and do the exercises properly. they need to do this by the. i mean your muscle cycles. so my coach would probably be appalled if he heard me talk about how to exercise properly. leg which i mean to me through a book or. so fast and then as coach have to vice a training routine with special exercises for his injured foot he wants to do really well in the upcoming why iron man the winner takes home a $100000.00 mirrors in prize money and sebastian wants to secure a lucrative sponsorship deal. with muffin always. i think judging by a link earning the office or more i have a 30 percent chance of winning the race for work on 4th of that's not bad.

but winning hawaii are unmanned costs at lease. a 1000000 a by training and preparation from the reward in the so you spend even more money over the years that. i thought on board with me. getting ready for and participating and i am competitions is costly sebastiaan needed to pay for training camps and international flights as well as for health insurance abroad. even question a marketing job to support him so i thought about what still needs doing i would also have requests of yeah i guess i need to take care of those myself package delivery is yup there are always a few of those with you know while with my hands and all the mail when the bus all the things i need to take to hawaii. or. to do 10 k. runs herself. but at some stage she decided she didn't want to become

a professional athlete will be modest i think it gets really difficult when both people in a relationship are ambitious athletes for a lot of help. i think those relationships don't tend to last i defied emotions. there were causing problems one person gives up their ambition so the other one can excel. in mind this is where i keep my bike. today sebastiaan is going for a long cycle light the hotel we're staying has given him a special room to store his beloved bike he designed it himself for the needs and why and mats it's for the bikes and doesn't even have paint on its frame this reduces the weight by an extra 140 grams.

along with it with. sebastian strong scent is cycling on his bike he knows he can make up for time lost swimming which he finds hardest. today he's sucking up to steep mountain passes and will cover not a tube of 1000 meters it will be a grueling 4 hour tour. that is following by car she knows these training sessions are not always smooth sailing. you yacht is my well i don't like him going out by himself i get nervous when i know he should be back in 3 hours but it isn't a. 35 year old sebastien became

a professional athlete 9 years ago he trained extremely hard that he knows injuries are a constant danger and that he any has a few months years and him as a full time athlete. if i hope. i enjoy the freedom that comes with being an athlete. so when i retire and become an employee somewhere it will be hard to adjust to that. there are days when i wish i had a 9 to 5 lifestyle where i can just come home and forget about work because that's not how things are when you're a sports person it's hard to switch off and we're gone this. sebastien loves to read to get his mind off things and relax. ok and putin i'm reading a book about russian president putin and one by michel you does on the middle east

. had been set up with so nothing to do with sports at all. so mists oh god it's next wall. street sebastian has decided to compete and the need to i am man after all no longer let me assure you. that if you. think it's true that a lot of this. i think you need some races i've been to professional and amateur athletes they only need to check in a day before the competition and sebastien like the others must check in his fight but if they feel absolute over this is like fort knox. but all that night they even have guard dogs patrolling in my name robertson is the one falling flat on either the definition of.

the party and the big day has arrived at some bus town as up at 5 am. and that's a. good. many times in my i'm going park usually i would absolutely hate getting up this early. in the gob puts into a pit stop putting up for a race like this when my alarm goes off i get up and i'm ready to roll. i never feel tired or anything like that. for me but. the competition kicks off until alice sebastian needs to get his kit ready so he won't lose any time during the race switching to his bike. he's already wearing his cycling slash running outfit underneath his neoprene suit. and carrying the number 3 is germany's class just keep.

going to school maybe you could be stuck on everybody can only hear you claiming. the professional athlete starts a few minutes before the amateurs. but unfortunately sebastiaan is off to a bad start within seconds he's trailing several swimmers and conquered past them. he loses precious time getting out of the water isn't 35th place a disaster. sebastian gets on his bike and tries to make up for lost time while cycling as a strong suit after all he gradually finds his way towards the top of the pack and by the time he ditched his bike to start running he's already in 11th place. sebastian gives that everything he's coming he's never run a marathon this fast before in his life. but even so it's not quite enough to clinch victory no west coast of eden comes 1st sebastian makes 5th place.

if you like my big. league form dancing with the fire everyone is impressed by sebastian fantastic comeback with the record here is a look at it is we're looking for retirement now he'll need time to recuperate and so will his wife it's been a stressful race for both x. the and tell me you know what. i believe it. was i supposed to do you think. deliberately swam so slowly no that's not what i'm saying good night long long honeymoon. i never get a break right have more. fun rather than the time for you but when they improve and with me yet so if that means giving my need to

recover as quickly as possible to get it because the big race in hawaii is coming up soon which i'm happy with 5th place but i could have done better. with this if that's not what i spent the past year training for. i would but i will focus on the good things the info i know i will have forgotten them by tomorrow or by this time the stylist put a clue to her just not. going to hear competing in these races is as much about mental strength as it is about physical fitness and it's about being nice to the fans to hear this. supposed jamel rest for 4 days and then get back into training for the hawaii i had my. me just get along. the.

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