tv Reporter Deutsche Welle October 7, 2019 10:45am-11:00am CEST
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and then run our full marathon. sebastian is talking with his wife christina training for need some iron man in 10 days time but not everything is going to plan. it all 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 this curve with my right foot. 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 one of the serve well you can still see the
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injury on my right foot is a bit taller. so this really doesn't bode well for the new iron man. 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 my lapa 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 sébastien engages until after 3 triathlon disciplines swimming cycling or running. after which he hits the gym he usually spends 8 hours training every day. over the
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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 distort the bottom i mean your muscles sidles you . know my coach would probably be appalled if you heard me talk about how to exercise properly. take the side of the rock run. so fast and then this coach have to have ice to 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 $100000.00 neurons in prize money and sebastian wants to secure a lucrative sponsorship deal. with madoff and always. i think judging by link earn him the office boy i'm i have a 30 percent chance of winning the race for the control of the that's not bad.
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but winning hawaii are unmanned costs at least a 1000000 about training and preparation from the menu or with the you spend even more money over the years. that's on board with me now. getting ready for and participating in iron man competitions is costly sebastiaan needs 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 think about what still needs doing. all sort of requests and yeah i guess i need to take care of those myself package delivery is. there always a few of those with you know my lower my hands and all the mail when the bus all the things i need to take to hawaii. to do 10 k. runs herself. but at some stage she decided she didn't want to become
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a professional athlete will be modest you know i think it gets really difficult when both people in a relationship are ambitious athletes before oh. hello. it's long i think those relationships don't tend to last i decided. to walk eyes and tell us 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 right 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 5 a bite and doesn't even have paint on its frame this reduces the weight by an extra 140 grimes.
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a lot of people with. sebastian strong suit 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 toot 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. when you yod these marvell 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
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a professional athlete 9 years ago he trains extremely hard there he knows injuries are a constant danger and at the end he has a few months years and him as a full time athlete. 5. what 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 could 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 wins that one by michel you does on the middle
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east. but it didn't fit well so nothing to do with sports at all. so mists oh god it's much walk the streets of us 2 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 important to have a little bit of this little bit more i think you need some races i've been to professional and amateur athletes they only need to check in the day before the competition and sebastien like the others must check in his fight but if the op ludo this is like fort knox. at night they even have guard dogs patrolling in my name that would seem easy one fall into it and i would be finished with.
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this if i did it the big day has arrived at some bus town as up at 5 am. message after. the event is on the i'm the park usually i would absolutely hate getting up this early. in the gob puts into a pit stop before 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 into alice and sebastian needs to get his kit ready so he won't get 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 past yes keeley. i know you're. going to get. you to describe. everybody can only hear
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you. 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 fair she 1st 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 fights his way towards the top of the pack and by the time he gets his bike to start running he's already in the 11th place. sebastian gives that everything he's coming he's never run a marathon this fast before and his life. but even so it's not quite enough to clinch victory no one is custom even comes 1st sebastian makes 5th place.
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to. sleep during dancing with the flyers everyone is impressed by sebastian fantastic come back with the word here is a look at israelis were looking for and regret now he'll need time to recuperate and so will as wife it's been a stressful race for both actually i mean you know what. i believe it. was i supposed to do you think i don't liberals. he swam so slowly no that's not what i'm saying tonight. i'm going to. make it. right to have more. fun rather than one family but in the end i must yet so if that is game i need to recover as quickly as possible to get at it
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because the big race in hawaii is coming up soon i'm happy with that place but i could have done better. this year that's not what i spent the past year training for. i but i will focus on the good things they employ i know i will have forgotten them by tomorrow or my lifetime the stylist with a clue to what government. is going to want 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. rest for 4 days and then get back into training for the hawaii i and my. me just get.
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