David is an Ironman in Frankfurt

Frankfurt Ironman - July 8th 2017

Race reporter David B The journey started on Friday morning catching the 9am train from Gare de l'Est to Frankfurt. A 4 hour journey that went by well, with only a few other people on the train apparently heading to the Ironman race (by bike bag counts) which made it easy to store all my gear. I checked in the hotel in Frankfurt and met with Chmou to go and get registered and sort out our bib and bag check in. We had both monitored the weather forecast throughout the week and out of 3-4 websites, none would give the same predictions for Sunday. Everything was expected, from thunderstorms, to heat, showers, mist, sun, clouds. One thing was certain: it was going to be hot, at least +30/32 in the afternoon, on the run leg which we knew was mostly exposed to the sun.