• replace the standard black bontrager road tires by michelin race pro 3 tires in green.
• replace the white bar tape  with a new one in same color of the tires

You gonna get that all together rather cheap ( about 60 € )

Have a look at the result:

Pretty good result for few Euros – at least to my mind.

Choose the year the bike was manufactured and go for it …

regards, and keep on sporting,

Klaas

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new handlebar is  combination of :

• syntace stratos as a base with syntace brakes
• syntaces SLS as the aerobar.
• Shimano Dura-Ace bar end shifters (of course still steering the SORA and FSA parts )

I got the chance to buy it as a used part pretty cheap.

This is how it looks now:

And how it looked before wih the old handlebar:

Next thing is to change the crankset from the current fsa to a shimano 105.

I am very happy with the changes. In Aero position (which is to me much more comfortable compared to the racing bike position) I would say that I get 1,5 to 2,5 km/h faster without pushing more noticably.Really saving energy with that and really increaesed my  km/h average  speed by 1.5 to 2 km/h.

I just can say – that was really worth it.

Kind regards,

and keep on sporting,

klaas

long time – no text – but now the sports year and the blogging will start up again.

I reduced making sports over the winter time and almost was churchilling ( “no sports” ) from december till mid february. I compensated that by eatig twice or three times as mutch as usual.

But now times arre getting better , weather is getting better and I will start over again. Yes, I know what you are thinking … “It’s about time, man “..

An you are right. The events I want to join are just a few weeks ago and the first one already was last weekend.

So here is my eventplan for 2010 so far.

• 01.05.2010, Nacht van Groningen, 7 km
• 28.05.2010, Wilstedt bei Nacht, 10 km
• 25.07.2010, Silbersee Triathlon, 500m / 20 km / 5 km
• 12.09.2010, Waterfront Triathlon, 500m / 20 km / 5 km
• 19.09.2010, swb Marathon, 10 km oder Halbmarathon
• 17.10.2010, TUI Palma Marathon (Mallorca), 10 km oder Halbmarathon

So far, so good. This will most probably be extended by one or two other events. I am looking for some duathlon event in june and another running event in june/july or august. I will add this when I found something.

Goal for eurorunners is to really run as much as possible in different european countries and cities. I will try to run at least one european marathon in a city somewehre in a european country per year. This year the plan is to start with the Nacht van Groningen which already took place last weekend and with the great finish with the TUI Palma Marathon in Qctober.

So keep on sporting,

kind regards,

Klaas

It was a very cool event. Very good organisation with food and drink  supplyies as well as amazing support alongside the course.

Chrissy, Stephy and Markus took the 10 km course, while joppi and me chose the half-marathon, this time. Time was not that important, finishing was the goal – and we made it. The swb-marathon is somehow the home event for me since it was my first official (hobby) running event I ever made. (Amazingly the first one was just a year ago in 2008)

So after all a more than sportive year so far. Can really hardly believe how much I improved in one year and what all seems possible now. I can really just encourage everybody to start with some jogging or cycling. It does not need much – and it’s amazing how proud it  makes to improve.

So here is the course ( tracked with the garmin 305 which is still an amazing gadget ) :

half marathon course

Here are all courses (10km, half marathon, marathon) – official map:

And here are the results: (preselected for the half marathon)

Personal result is a 1:47:36. Plan was to land somewhere in between 1:50:00 and 1:55:00 so I am quite happy with that.

A small side remark to the glorification of sports some paragraphs above:

my legs hurt, I got aking muscles like mad. Where is the glory?

There is only pain …

But you know, at least since this post that I am a wimp

I learned something today, from a T-Shirt of someone running in front of me (of course just before I passed him   :

The Pain is Temporary, The Pride is Forever

Just as a side remark: do not give too much on things you learn from T-Shirts.To me and today it just seems vice versa, believe me … do not believe the shirts !!! do not trust shirts !! don’t believe what they say !! dont’t do it ! NO !.

Anyway:

Greatest respect and greetings to chrissy and stephy who finished their first 1ok. To Markus who almost broke the 50:00 barrier on 10k with a very good 50:33 (that is so damn close) . And of course  to joppi who really did great and finished this one as well as the triathlon and  all the other events this year. Thank you, thank you and thank you  for accompanying and pushing me.

Just for the statistics: 5 guys – 5 personal bests. What more can you want.

kindest regards,

khz

results in detail:

Charlie Sloth: Champion (very good powersong

let it rock- Kevin Rudolf ft Lil Wayne

invaders must die – the prodigy

regards,

klaas

just a note after finishing my first triathlon.

The Waterfront Triathlon Bremen.

(remark: some images are linked from: http://bremen1000.jalbum.net/ – check it out )

The goal:

the goal

Swimming: (in the river weser , exactly the harbour)

changing zone:

cycling:

just no pics available ;(   But check out my bike here

running:

finishing:

My Result:

• Swimming: 00:13:43
• Cycling: 00:43:18 (including changing time)
• Running: 00:21:35
• All-in-all:  01:18:35

much better than really expected in best case

My short summary:  YEEEEEAAAAAH !!!

I can just tell everybody to give it a try – this is fun, really fun and very much making yourself proud of finishing. (At least me )

More pics and infos:

• check out all the pics here
• check out the results here

Kind regards and keep on sporting,

klaas