“It was my own fault!” (03.07.2011)

These were the word of Faris Al-Sultan after the Alps Triathlon on the Schliersee. For sure he was not happy with his 23rd place. On the other side a great bike and run performance of Kristin Möller brought here a 7th place.

Faris came to Schliersee with big goals. The first discipline went almost as he wanted it to go. He came out of the water at the end of the first group. In the transition area he lost some important seconds as he could not get his 2 swimming caps off. He used 2 because the water was pretty cold. So he led the second group on the bike which just came close to the leaders once. At that moment Faris did not take the risk to push as hard as possible to get into it. So he reached the second transition area on the 20^th place which demotivated him that much that he did not run full speed. That meant to finish on 23^rd place. “It was my own mistake which let to that result. Another day of recovery after the race on Sylt would have been nice but still there would have been the opportunity to place much better” was Faris comment after the race.

Schliersee is from the view of the course profile the race of Kristin. It is a pity that she lost almost all the time in the water. She had to follow almost the entire field by herself. With a great performance on the bike and on the run she could overtake many of the female athletes and finished 7^th.