This year the indoor German ParaAthletics championship took place in Erfurt again. But this year my trainer had another distance in mind for me. Not 3000m like las yer. Not 1500m as in the outdoor championship las year. Not 800m as in Augsburg.. I ran 400m.
My guide this year was Simon Pieper. He is a great athlete for long sprint, as 400m is called, himself. For 400m Simon really needs to mirror my legs and arms, so I’m not slowed down. Simon really did a great job with that in the training and the race!
I ran against 3 other man in a timed run. The race got of ok from lane 3. I think I could have done a better start. The first round was ok in lower 30 seconds range. After the 2nd corner we could change to lane 1 and in the 2nd we had to over take another runner, who overestimated himself. Unfortunately we lost speed, because we slowed down to his pace and accelerated after the corner again. After that it was the final corner and the finish line after 73.48 seconds. I was really happy all worked out with the starting block and the lane switch. Simon really did a great job! The time could have been better. But now I can top that in the outdoor events in the summer.
