Jan van Berkel is back as triathlete (30.06.2010)

Jan is back into normal training for the World Championship Series race in Hamburg and London after he did a big exam for his studies. Here is a report from Jan.

After my trip around the world I reached the top 50 of the world ranking. So I had reached my goal and I could lean back and focus on my exams. That time was pretty tough. In my specific studies colleagues stop all other activities as job, sports etc. to prepare for that exam more than half a year. I tried to keep quite a high amount of training besides learning. So my days started at 6 in the morning and ended at night around 11.

Just after the exam I went to the Netherlands to participate in the national championships. I could not forget the hard work of the last weeks and so the race did not go well. Now I have rested some days and I started training appropriate and I feel as a triathlete again.

Tomorrow I will go for a training camp on high altitude until I will race in the World Champion Series in Hamburg. That is for sure one of the highlight of a triathlete. There I want to be fully recovered and so that I can represent the team in a perfect way over the short course. For that I have to push myself hard in the next 4 weeks. But I look forward to that!