{"id":116,"date":"2014-08-16T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michael-krell.com\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2026-07-16T06:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:35:33","slug":"michael-krell-portrait","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michael-krell.com\/en\/michael-krell-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 8:30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My path to Challenge Roth 2028<\/h2>\n

Eight hours and 30 minutes at Challenge Roth \u2013 this goal has been with me for many years. Now I want to find out how close I can get to achieving it.<\/p>\n

I came to triathlon relatively late. I completed my first races at the age of 25, followed by my first long-distance triathlon at Challenge Roth in 2006. Two years later, I qualified for the Ironman Hawaii, and in 2009, I broke the nine-hour mark in Roth for the first time. My official best time is 8 hours and 47 minutes.<\/p>\n

I am no longer just an athlete; I have been working as a licensed triathlon coach for over 20 years. During this time, I have guided numerous age-group athletes on their journey \u2013 from their first triathlon to personal bests, Hawaii qualifications, and successful long-distance races.<\/p>\n

On my athletic journey, I devoured almost all the information I could find about triathlon and training science. In doing so, I also discovered my passion for writing. Besides numerous contributions to blogs, online portals such as tri-mag.de and triathlon.de, and specialist magazines like Triathlon Magazin, tritime, and Loox Sportmagazin, I can now look back on six book publications, several new editions, and over 40,000 copies sold.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Now I will become my own training project again.<\/p>\n

The goal is Challenge Roth 2028. Until then, I want to gradually get back to a performance level that allows for a time around 8:30 hours \u2013 in my mid-40s, with a family and children, a demanding professional life, and a limited time budget of eight to ten training hours per week. The circumstances are therefore significantly different than in my fastest years.<\/p>\n

That is precisely what makes this project so appealing to me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It's not about simply copying previous training or accumulating as many hours as possible. It's about discovering what else is possible with intelligent, consistent, and time-efficient training.<\/p>\n

What level of performance can be rebuilt after years without ambitious long-distance training? How do regeneration, resilience, and training management change with increasing age? How can endurance performance, strength, health, and a normal professional and family life be combined?<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The 8:30 project will therefore be much more than just competition preparation. It will become a long-term practical project on efficient training planning with a very limited time budget, performance improvement beyond previous levels, targeted nutrition and regeneration, and healthy aging in endurance sports.<\/p>\n

My experiences as an athlete, coach, and author all come together in this work. At the heart of my work has always been one question:<\/p>\n

How can the best possible results be achieved from the available training time of 8-10 hours per week?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the next two years, I will transparently follow the journey to Roth \u2013 with performance data, training sessions, progress, setbacks and the decisions behind the training plan.<\/p>\n

Not as a theoretical concept, but as a real experiment.<\/p>\n

The goal is set: Challenge Roth 2028 \u2013 Mission 8:30.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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