Café Divine, North Beach, San Francisco
I assume that this video does not need any further explanation. Kristina and I were exchanging ideas and I "proudly" showed her our latest BIESTMILCH productions. The red wine, our loyal buddy insisted to stay with us afraid we might get lost otherwise ...

What happened in brief in case the video is too cryptic :
... key not available upon arrival, killing time with a drink, instructions arrived, key found under stone in front of building, managed to open wrong front door with the key... being in the wrong building found no key for apartment door under door mat ... leaving building, after having identified right building front door opened easily, found key under mat, stepped into apartment, opened back door, went out on roof top, enjoyed view when hearing door slamming... locked out, desperate, knocking door of neighbor underneath, a Chinese finally opened his door and led us back in again through the front door. Thank god, we hadn't closed the apartment door yet.... saved!!!!

This video was shot at our autograph session in Kona 2012 with Chris McCormack, Ronnie Schildknecht, Andi Boecherer and Sebastian Kienle. Unfortunately Rachel Joyce had to cancel the session due to a chest infection.

In the end we had lots of fun, and where happy to have been able to collect with Rachel Joyce, Chris McCormack, Sebastian Kienle, Ronnie Schildknecht and Andi Boecherer all our biest athletes in one place.
Watch the video and you will fell the magic of the lava fields, a great experience!

More about Biestmilch ...

Behind the Biestmilch crew were lying two hard weeks of work with late nights and early mornings. So getting up at race day was not a big deal for us. Race day is always special for us. On the one hand we feel this relief that the job is done, on the other hand the body is pumped with excitement whether the race will meet our hopes and expectations. With Chris, Sebi, Ronnie, Andi and last but not Rachel we had top guys racing, expectations were high.
Today all of us know that things turned out slightly different. Macca had a DNF, Ronnie got over-heated and had to slow down, Andi ran into a row of unlucky incidents, and Rachel was definitely not yet in top form after her chest infection during race week. Only Sebi hit the point, even though he had a flat, he already showed in his first Kona race that he is an exceptional athlete, a real racer with lots of guts.

At the end of the day when the cows had all come home we have been exhausted but happy, and ready to come back to Kona in 2013. This short finish line video gives a good impression of the emotions our guys where in crossing the line.

Participants were: highly reputed photographer Michael Rauschendorfer, Chris "MACCA" McCormack, unfortunately with a DNF, Rachel Joyce, unlucky 11th after having a chest infection during race week, Sebastian Kienle, 70.3 world champion, 2012 & 4th in Kona after having had a flat, Ronnie Schildknecht, 19th place and not really happy with himself, and Andi Boecherer, 21st and probably the most unhappy guy in the group. Too many things had happened that spoiled his race. That he forgot his tripants at the condo, that his trisuit tore apart, and his drinking bottle cracked on the ride are only some of the unlucky incidents that made him upset about this race. But more about this later in our interviews "the race in 60 seconds" that will follow this post ...

Anyway, be it as it may we all came together on the Lava fields, and whether it was the incredible power of the lava or the power and harmony in the group as such or – what is most likely – all together made this shooting real fun, and the results were therefore outstanding. The photos of the making don't show the stress the Biestmilch crew had to rebuild the CUBE on the highway before carrying it into the Lava fields. Almost 3 hours before we have been there to be ready in time, the wind was blowing fairly strong and the sun was burning on the asphalt. But Fritz, Herwig, Mark, Bettina and myself succeeded to get the job done without any serious incidents, we even had some good laughs the situation being rather absurd with us and this big white thing fiddling around on the highway's shoulder and being shattered by each truck passing. 

Then we had to wait for Micheal. He had to decide where to position the CUBE on the lava field. Let's say we were standing still on the highway for ca. 45 minutes, then he came, what a relief!. Thank god, that Harald Eggebrecht and Anton Thomma from tri2b came with him to help. Carrying the Cube on to the fields was amazingly easy, and what was even more surprising was that the CUBE was standing so incredibly stable on the lava despite strong and gusty winds. This must have been the magic of the place!

I think I need not to tell more, the photos speak for themselves...

Michael Rauschendorfer did the shooting, awesome job! Harald Eggebrecht and Anton Thomma from tri2b slipping into supportive roles, thanks a lot guys!

Most welcome guys on our website!

Nothing needs to be said about Chris. Ronnie was the first man under 8 hours on US soil, Andi is 70.3 European champion and finished 8th in Kona last year, and Sebastian our youngster is the new world champion on the 70.3 distance.
It will be an extremely exciting race for the Biestmilch team this year. Looking forward to the thrill already!