With 35 kilometers left of the Ironman bike race in Kalmar, 34-year-old André Du Rietz got a flat tire. No one could fix the tire, so he decided to run the rest of the race – in cycling shoes. – It felt a bit like a joke, he says.
Folklore has it that people from Småland are stubborn. During the Ironman in Kalmar, André Du Rietz, 34, proved that the legend is true. “Everything below the hip hurt,” he says.
With 35 kilometers left of the Ironman bike race in Kalmar, 34-year-old André Du Rietz got a flat tire. No one could fix the tire, so he decided to run the rest of the race – in cycling shoes. – It felt a bit like a joke, he says.