I think he was just drilling himself on the bike, wasn't he?

Yeah, maybe.

And when you first get away on the second lap there, it's hard to see where he is with all the age groupers along the road.

but yeah I don't in the start it looked like he got a little bit help from the car in front and with the motorbikes so I were about to tell the referee that the car need to go away and the motorbikes needs to keep more distance, but then it loosen up and the car went further in front and it wasn't an issue.

So, but yeah, he were pushing quite hard in the hills and then I won't say soft pedaling, but it was quite much easier on the flats and the fast sections than in the hills.

So then, yeah, he got distance in the hills and then we pedaled him in again on the fast sections.

So, yeah.

If you'd known this, would you have been tempted by Roth next weekend and then vice versa? Do you think KB would have raced this and then just gone to fucking Roth as well? Because he seems arrogant enough to do that.

did you guys um look at the course and train it like because nice and marbella both had quite a lot of climbing do you do some specific stuff in training for that

uh yeah like we were looking on the course uh but when you That knees maybe were a bit more important to look at in terms of the technical part on a bike.

But yeah, we knew it was a lot of climbing and I were there one time before the race.

But I decided to not go down from Sierra.

The second, I don't know, was it three times you were there? No, just two.

Yeah.

Yeah, just two.

the entire bike and you said you weren't feeling good in the swim so I imagine you starting the run you weren't full of confidence that you're on for a good day to be able to fight for the win I'm assuming is that how you're feeling or did you think you'd get to the run and it would be fine then I'd

Norwegians are going to burn them off and then it's going to be a race, right? But you at one point dropped back.

Yeah, I had a poor transition, so I needed to run myself up.

So I managed to get up just before we came out to where the very strong wind was along the promenade.

So then we ran together and then Gustav went faster again.

So then I was thinking, Now he he know that I've been using energy to get up and he also probably want to put pressure on Christian and the other guys.

So yeah, then I felt the pace were not sustainable for me for the whole marathon.

And we had just ran eight or nine K.

Let's push, you got a gap.

um so what were you thinking casper when this when the second group bridged up sort of caught you the second chase group caught your group what was the thinking in your head were you happy to see the boys were you you know concerned about now you have magnus with you you were hoping for some some gap off the bike what was

the thinking uh i weren't thinking so much that i were worried uh it was just like okay now they are up uh They probably used a little bit more energy than me to bridge up.

But I also were a little bit more active in the front yesterday than I normally are.

So I want to test doing a bit more work towards knees.

So test how their run legs are.

So I knew that I've been running good in training and that it's basically just...

Christian or Gustav that can beat me in the run so yeah I weren't so worried about anyone gonna run faster than me but you never know it's a long day and I also lost my nutrition in the start so I already were on minus with carbs but yeah it was just Nice to see Gus and Christian coming up.

What's the thinking in your mind?