My alarm is set for 4:20 am … the last jobs of the day are done. I leave you for now, and hope to get back to you with good news. Keep your fingers crossed for our biest athletes Nicole Leder and Chris McCormack.
Dog with a pink strand of hair...
The Making of “Bike ride along Santa Monica coastline”
After a total break-down of our Internet connection we are back again. In 2 hours we leave from Santa Monica to Kona, The Making of “Bike ride along Santa Monica coastline”
Chris, Ronnie, Stefan and Sebastian
Yesterday we accompanied our biest athletes Chris McCormack, Ronnie Schildknecht and Sebastian Kienle along the Santa Momica coastline and through the Agoura Hills North of Los Angeles. It was a wonderful, but hot day. Here some impressions from our shooting activities.
Shooting from the various perspectives
Shooting from the rear of the car
Trying not to fall off the car
Swine flu brings about new awareness of the importance of immunity
Today I had a long telephone call with Chris. He is back in Sydney and wanted to fly to Singapore for a short holiday with his family. Not that easy as it turned out. Asia is in a turmoil because of the swine flu. At Singapore airport they have implemented a temperature sensor that is screening all visitors to the country. Elevated temperatures mean a quarantine for 7 days. As his daughter Tahlia is still a little bit frail after the cold she had, and her temperature still slightly above normal, Emma and Chris don’t want to take the risk. Swine flu is the issue in South Asia, he told me. “It seems that whole Australia is sick”, he said. People walk around Sydney with face masks, they prefer to stay home instead of going out. “It is weird”, he said, “having been in Europe for so long I missed the months that lead to this escalation of the situation. It is all about immunity and the immune system around me.”
The flu is a viral infection. The most powerful tool against this illness is a strong immune system. This is straight in the line with biestmilch.
Weisst du, Biestmilch ist mein Zweites Immunsystem
and: Biestmilch is the most powerful food in the world …!
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This is our first Biestmilch commercial, and it is partly a condensed condensation 
of macca09, my journey around the world with Chris McCormack. Moreover, you see the faces of our biestmilch athletes Yvonne van Vlerken, Nicole Leder and Sebastian Kienle.
Thanks a lot to Fritz Oelberg who did all the editing and conceptional work.
Aficionada
Even if Chris is not winning he is the star. In New Orleans’ Ironman 70.3 he came in second. This did not affect his being the center of attention at all.
Looks like true love ;-), Chris with one of his many fans
One more bird, and elsewise always ready to do the job
Chris and myself getting ready for the job
A crow watching the situation carefully
Chris McCormack about his personal shift of focus and about his training for the 2009 race season
»Perfect practice makes perfect«
On Thursday I had this telephone talk with Chris. We were talking about training issues, about the racing season 2009, and about his very personal views on life and his sport. If you listen to this conversation you hear an incredible relaxed and sincere Chris McCormack. From his words you can learn a lot what it takes to grow older as a pro athlete, how to adjust to this inevitable fact. As a young guy he had to prove himself to others, today he wants to prove to himself that he can deliver the perfect race for himself. Up to now he says, he did not experience this perfect race that you will keep in mind for ever.
The culprit for a short-lived dream: Macca’s gear shift cable
This year Chris wanted to defend his world champion title 2007. Within seconds this dream broke into bits and pieces.
the gear shift cable
Chris, still optimistic on his way to Hawi