Today I got back from the 29th Giro Dolomiti in Bozen, Italy, which I had participated in with three other guys from Freiburg. All in all, there were 6 legs of about 435m/700km and 39370 vertical ft/12000hm for us to overcome. Every day there was a mountain time trial with ramps up to 18%.

Right at the beginning of the excursion, I unnecessarily dropped in the rankings, due to a broken chain during the mountain time trial, which meant that I really had to make good time on the rest of the days.

So, after a sunny week in the south, I came in 24th overall out of about 625 participants. I have to add here that the winner was a 53 year old Italian dude.

I sort of doubt that everything went "cleanly", but I was still pleasantly surprised by the organization and the awesomely hardcore mountains. Next Sunday the 3rd marathon of the German Bike Masters series will be taking place and since I had to end the second race of that series early, due to defects, I'll have to go at it at FULL THROTTLE!!!

Ciao,

Sönke

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