Q-Rings sum-up or..

Originally this should have been the wrap-up of my experience with the q-rings in the last 5 weeks.
But somehow I feel like I am back to the starting line.. but first things first!
Summary:

Week 1: Choppy but a somehow faster feeling outdoors, horrible on the trainer though.

Week 2: Not as choppy as week 1 but still not round, got used to run it on the trainer (still not great)

Week3 : Spin is getting better. Short testing of round rings feels horrible and reveals their possible disadvantages.

Week 4: Finally a good spin and a really good feeling, great 4 hour ride outdoors with them.

Week 5: Tried round rings for 10minutes, felt horribly in the beginning, 2min later, SWOOSH! I am back to my old spin and the q-rings felt nearly as bad as on the first day.

Even my knees don't seem to know which direction I should pursue in the future.
This will need some good thinking. I'll stick with the small q-ring and round big ring for now. But a decision has to be made in the near future. All ideas appreciated!

have a nice day
cya

Benja

Zeller - "my background is running

Zeller, triathlete, 23 years old.
Blonde, blue eyes, good looking, ivory skin.. but wait don't get too much excited here guys!
Its a dude:D
And he can run,
5ks in 16:17 in really difficult conditions today! He'll be attaking the 16min margin next week in Porz.
So much about his strengths.
Although he's got a huge (and if I say huge I really mean H-U-G-E - really, you wouldn't believe..) man-crush on Lance Armstrong he prefers to stay a runner/ triathlete, keeping the immitation of Lance to quoting him all day long and stalking him over the Internet:)

BTW, Lance if you read this keep an eye out for him and get this restraining order going before you come to europe!
so much for Zeller for now, as I'm too tired to go on.
If anything comes to mind I'll post/edit it right away

Ah wait all in all, great guy!


(pic is from his homepage - linked below)


Love yall!
hugs and kisses
yours
Zac Efron

Zeller Homepage - great pics^^

*I wrote this being really tired, so I really got no idea what I wrote up there
cya

the Kölner Triathlon TEAM 01

There is no perfect Team.
Every Team out there got its own pros and cons, like Inter Mailand having Marco Materazzi in the team, like Astana having Contador(sry don't like him^^), like Berliners are filled with jam ( very exclusive personal taste, but you know where I'm going with this). Some things just do not work together like Clemens and lactate acid, Markus and turnarounds or Zeller and nuts (DZnuts excluded).
Our Team is not excluded from this rule. While our problems seem to be rather minor, they still can be pretty annoying. I'll just name one for now (keeping the others for later, hehe ;)
Well it seems like we'll be forever stuck with the color red in our teamwear as it's part of the Team-logo and our presidents favorite color.
Don't cry now, I know you expected greater flaws, but its my blog so...
..live with it<|:)
But I didn't want to write about my dislikes but rather more about what I really love about this team, that we are all pretty much good friends. Everybody has his own mind, is weird in some way, can of course be annoying from time to time but deep down I really like all you guys very much.
Therefore I will present each one with a special post in this blog. (I'll only present members of the 1.Mannschaft or maybe just the ones with own homepages - because I'm very lazy)
I'll be starting with Zeller, working my way up through the alphabete to ALi.
So see you soon, with an update on Sebastian Zeller
cheers

Benja

Rotor Q-Rings Test

I have been curious about these ovalized rings for quite some time now.
And well, of course I bought them.
I am not sayins all promises about saving x-watts with them are complete BS but the orthopedic advantages made more sense to me and finally led me to trying them out. If I get a wattage gain as well I won't say no to it.


Fitting was no problem, I installed only the small ring to have a round big ring for constant comparison.

1.Try
It was about 0° C outside so I decided to take them for a 10minute spin and finish the session at home on the rollers.

First impression:
Really weird:D
Not in a bad way. It felt somewhat pretty choppy but at the same time I had the feeling of beeing able to put constantly more power on the pedals. My Cadence went slightly up (+5)and I had the urge of riding much faster. Which was concerning the temperature and the cold wind not the best intuitive move.
Back home on the rollers they felt even more choppy. Maybe the indoor trainer added to this feeling.
My knees felt pretty good so I will continue the experiment

I have been riding them for 2 weeks now and will report back in the next days.

All infos about the q-rings and how they work on
Rotor USA
Rotorbike.com





have a nice day
cya

Benja

Lets get this baby started^^

So after everyone is getting their Homepage online, (even Zeller!;)) I had to do something! As a homepage is too much hassle and would feel a little akward, I'm going to setlle with this blog instead.
Since I won't have much things to write about in general I think I will be posting in english here. So even if no one read this blog, at least I will be spending my time on the internet thinking I did something for my english!:)
Hope you'll maybe find something interested here. (absolutely no guarantee, as I have no idea at the moment how I will continue this blog from now on)
So have fun and click on the links to find homepages of real athletes.
Have a pleasant day!
cya

Benja