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[Music] I [Music] [Music] [Music] come on in um I grew up just watching trons from my buggy from the pram saying go Dad and uh yeah my brother did it for a while and I thought I can do better than him so I’ll do it too I naturally love running biking I’ve come to love I just didn’t do very much when I was younger I used to just dust off my bike couple uh yeah a couple weeks before a race when I was a junior and then hop on it and practice um but swimming I’ve done since I was younger so that should I guess be the most natural so two years pro yeah yeah it’s my second year yeah it’s going good yeah yeah climbing up rankings so this one is my third uh Pro Series race um got some good points I did two races in America the kind of the purpose of that trip wasn’t necessarily sort of for the Pro Series but I got some good points so I thought might as well continue with with the series and see see how high up I can get and maybe sort of as a bit of a tester for next year to see what points I can get from 703s and how much um of a difference doing a couple of Falls might make for next year um but yeah just doing each race sort of as a standalone and then seeing where that gets me in the series um but no never raced here before but course is good yes some very fast bit some of the back roads a bit slower um but no I think I mean when you look at the start list I think the bike is going to be a really key element of the race some very there yes lot of Firepower that I think is going to be coming from the chase pack and they’re going to be chasing me down those roads so uh yeah I’m really looking forward to it it’s my first race in Europe of the season um sort of yeah when the starts came out I thought wow that’s a that’s a cracking field and really glad to put my name down for this one uh I think the whole course really I’m really looking forward to but the run I I like runs that are kind of long stretches um not yeah not too windy just long stretches get into Rhythm I think the bit over the beach obviously I think it’s 200 meters uh once so um yeah just got to keep the Cadence up for that bit um but I think it’s important when you do races not to think about which bit suits you which bit doesn’t suit you you know you got to take the race as a whole and um yeah just push all the way around so today is an important day my birthday today it 28 like 28 today y well happy birthday to you my dad didn’t know I just say this morning today’s my birthday forgot so you’ve raced here before Marain hasn’t raced here before do you have any top advice for mareline how to attack this race uh I think it’s important for to do a good swim because it’s not easy with the current uh and also to to see in front uh Howen so because if you do a good stream here I think much enough the bik it would to be a good thing you’ve been training in this with a world champion tell us about that yeah yeah with luy we made some training um that was really nice to show to re and Lucy the the landscape of N and The Bu course for the World Champ and we are happy that she she had his slot for for racing so that was amazing memories so going talking about the pro series clemon you’ve already got points on the leaderboard from Iron Man Texas yeah see um how do you get on there I finished sh in Texas so it will be my second Pro uh series I uh Al race here and after I will be in ffort for sure and I up zmc beginning of September and after Koda by your you still to score any points on the pro series leaderboard but that’s because you’ve not raced any races yet yeah so what’s the plan where have you been we’re middle of the Year tell us a little bit about your journey this year yeah quite difficult beginning of the year so I hope to to swim well on Saturday and uh yeah I grow my fitness uh slowly especially on the Run uh because it’s always like the the key things when you are injured so yeah I just want to I think have a a good swim and just would be great to be with the other girls on the bike uh and this Run course nice and flat yeah nice for a fast runner perhaps yeah for sure yeah I’m quite sad to not be like on my top Fitness on the run because I always wanted to be uh fit and run fast here to like have a like a time but uh I think I will see sometime on Races you can do something like crazy so maybe I will run very fast but I will see I can’t I can’t tell you right now when you’re no stranger to the 70.3 race SE I think your name came up in lights from your recent shoulder to shoulder with Y stman yeah tell us a little bit about that race to go right yeah honestly it was a bit unexpected for me as well cuz I was the first race of the season and I wasn’t sure what to expect I came to the race and thought maybe top five would be okay top three would be perfect at the run I found myself fighting for the win and I was like so happy about it and then I just went for it and sprinted basically the last fourks to be honest I don’t know how I did it but I did it there’s some big names in the field Gustav Eden I Champion you imagine going head-to-head with him well it would be basically a dream but I hope he’s uh his Fitness is there I think it’s a bit unsure I think not even himself knows how good he he really is yeah everything can happen I think he can make a great race win it and or maybe just run for the finish I guess so I think everything is possible but it’s also great to to race with a bit uncertainty you been a two pro series races New Yorker and here yeah is this Focus for you are you going to fight for the series through 7.3 I don’t think I will make it to a top in the series with only 70 point3 cuz if you do Iron Man you get so much more points and I don’t think I will be able to get four or five or even 6 7 Co free for the ranking but yeah obviously the pro series attracts the the best athletes and yeah my goal is to race and compete with the with the best athletes and then yeah it was an easy decision to compute where’s your strength lie on this course have you seen the course you you’ve been you had a little run on the prominade here but have you been on the bik course you know what you about the course and where those strengths your strengths I think there are courses who suit me better or which should suit me better but I worked quite hard in my my aerodynamic uh game so I think I can have a shot here otherwise I wouldn’t be here obviously and yeah I’m looking forward to uh to race full in the course and see how fast we can go is he sleeping he’s are you sleeping PA he’s always sleeping yeah the whole time let’s hope you’re not going to sleep on Saturday no Saturday is race day no time for sleeping but today yeah take it easy 70 minutes on the bike with um short inter worlds um yeah main thing checking the cross it’s like a rolling cross I think it’s pretty good um I’m kind of a tall guy though there are long climbs yeah I think the this this course suits me yeah I raced Iron Man Texas in the end of April it was my first Iran Iron Man then since nearly two years go they have the had on health issues last year though there was no racing though um yeah Texas was uh pretty pretty nice um finished six with yeah the Gap to the front was a little bit some kind of big but it was pretty okay solid racing yeah full focus is on on the Iron Man series it’s pretty packed the the field and but it’s good I think it’s good for the for the sports and um yeah that’s makes the racing interesting I would say I would uh I’m pretty solid in all three disciplines though hopefully I yeah in the first group out of the swim and then manage to stay there on the bike and my running shape is pretty good I would say yeah pretty solid and uh hopefully get some good points for for the series [Music] [Music]
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