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Evi Neuscheler 2nd at IRONMAN 70.3 Aarhus

Great achievement for Castelli equipped German Evi Neuscheler at IRONMAN 70.3 Aarhus last Sunday. She was only beaten by Dane Camilla Pedersen who already won three half-distance races earlier this year.Neuscheler-2

Women Top-3:
Camilla Pedersen (DEN) 4:26:05
Evi Neuscheler (GER) 4:42:56
Parys Edwards (GBR) 4:43:45

Read on Evi’s race impressions:

“The Danish Aarhus has not only made me smile, but was also my first podium finish at a 70.3 race.
Just over a year after my accident at IRONMAN 70.3 in Berlin and a difficult preparation full of injuries, I came to Denmark highly motivated and very excited. Today, it just had to work!

Swimming in the cold Baltic Sea fighting against jellyfish was as hard as expected. I wasn’t able to follow the pace of the front group and reached T1 at 11th position.

My jump on the bike must have been pure entertainment for the audience. Everything went wrong. Anyway, I stayed focused and laughed at myself. I quickly found my rhythm and caught a few competitors quite early in the race. It really went like clockwork on a beautiful, winding course through the hills around Aarhus. After 3h12 on the bike, I started the concluding half marathon at 3rd place.

Everything felt great and my race position was better than I could have dreamed of. To my great surprise, I only had a gap of around 30 seconds to Parys Edwards.

Cheered by the euphoric Danish crowd, my pacing was quite offensive. Even occurring stomach problems and blisters on my feet couldn’t kept me from pushing. Fighting with a smile was the name of the game from now on. It seemed to work, cause just a few minutes before the finish I saw Parys in front of me. I managed to outpace her and even had enough time to enjoy the final meters and crossed the finish line after 4h42 at second place behind superb Camilla Pedersen.
I am more than happy and hardly believe my ranking. Can you see me smiling?”

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