The Challenge Roth race day is inching closer and here is another gallery of images from this impressive event. Between relays and individual athletes there will be about 5,000 triathletes at the start line on Sunday, and these folks will be assisted by about 5,600 volunteers.

All images © Herbert Krabel / slowtwitch.com

Early action in the High5 booth and High5 is the race nutrition in Roth.

But meanwhile it was eerily quiet at the Solarer Berg where thousands of spectators will be on Sunday.

Stephen Bayliss and James Cunnama were inseparable all day.

The Skins brand is quite popular in Germany.

Kiwi Cameron Brown is one of the favorites here.

Woolf?

Age groupers Alex Wells and Steve Moruzzi traveled from Abu Dhabi to race Challenge Roth, and there are more folks from UAE among the large field here.

Busy shoppers in the skinfit booth.

This Scott Split helmet is apparently one of Sebastian Kienle's lids, but he is not here racing.

We stumbled upon one of the Rotor Flow aero prototype cranks in the expo area.

This Austrian WestBerg nutrition product in the hands of Nina Schaiter is relatively new, but tasted nicely.

Timo Bracht will have a big target on his back because he is the favorite here.

The Germans might be looking mostly at Julia Gajer and Sonja Tajsich, but Rachel Joyce is a clear favorite.

This large group of french triathletes from Issy Triathlon was roaming in downtown Roth.

We also ran into Ain-Alar Juhanson with his family downtown.

Belinda Granger received a nice kiss from her host family's son Felix during the autograph session.

The Nudelparty was a massive event with good food and drinks and a very nice vibe.

Joerk Kustermann won this Scott Plasma 3 frame set for the creative Scott contest submission behind him. Now he can't retire after Roth, he plans to race Challenge Wanaka on the new frame.

There was also a big party going on in the market square downtown.

Felix Walchshoefer is interviewed by a host from the Bayern3 network.