Thanks for posting, I sure would like to know what his background was before triathlon, if it was one sport and what he does for a living. Keep these AG profiles coming, glad to see more focus on us!

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Nice interview!
Agree with Hadukla, what is his background (would guess biking since he does bike races too), and how life around tri.

Should 21-year old athletes be considered "Age Groupers"?

Yes

No disc, tubular tires, and long cranks. Hard to believe he even finished under the time limit! ;)

I do not know the answer to this, but I do know that he lives in a beautiful (and wonderful place to ride) part of Germany. Not far from the Black Forest, and the Bodensee (Lake Constance).

320 NP and rides 2:15. Looks like there's some low hanging fruit he can easily fix.

Or he's running a stages or powertap pedals. ;)

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Whats the deal with Power Tap pedals?

I am mostly joking but there have been a few instances of them reading quite high. I believe Jesse Thomas noticed a pretty big discrepancy between the pedals and a PT hub. I thought I remembered seeing somewhere that he actually switched back to the PT hub earlier this year or late last year.

Anyway... it looks like Patrick is running a quarq from the photos (but I can only see the nds).

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I'm pretty sure his crank (non-driveside) says "quarq" similar to one of mine.

He is from Rottweil where my dad is from and I still have many aunts and uncles and nephews and nieces. Plus his triathlon team is based in Mengen (Daniel Unger used to be on it) and I grew up 14km from there

It was a pretty tough bike course ?

You forgot an Ultegra mechanical group!!!

Yeah, but he rides a Canyon, so all that fluff doesn't make that much of a difference.