Training in South Africa
Sweating on grass at an unusual altitude
Temperatures around 30 degrees, 1340 meters above sea level and perfect training conditions on an unusual surface. Niklas Strohmayer-Dangl will be sweating under the South African sun until Sunday.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen "I struggled a bit in the first few days," says Burgenland's athlete of the year. "That was mainly due to the unfamiliar altitude."
Potchefstroom, a city with around 45,000 inhabitants a good two hours' drive southwest of Johannesburg, is 1,200 meters higher than Niklas' home town of Neufeld. "I'm happy to take the positive effects of the altitude with me."
However, the decisive factor for the 22-year-old and his coach Viola Kleiser in choosing the location for the 24-day training camp was the infrastructure. In addition to tartan tracks, sprint straights and weight rooms, the student city also has a 400-meter track on grass.
The 400-metre hurdles specialist, who will be competing for Laufteam Burgenland in 2025, will be spending Christmas and New Year's Eve back at home at his usual altitude.
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