After forcing ourselves out of our berths at 5 o'clock in the morning on Sunday, we hoisted our sails in the direction of the south on the A7 autobahn. We stopped for a marathon at the height of Kassel. It started at 9am, so we had enough time for an easy warm up.

At exactly 9 o'clock the peleton was on its way uphill over slippery, enrooted forest trails and wet meadows.

Due to the wet weather, the downhills were turned into bobsled chutes, so some of our fellow participants found themselves looking closely for ground samples.

The results of the race were, once again, two medals for the women of the Pirate-Bike Sport News team.

3rd place (silver): Claudia, 17.4m/28km
Claudia' article:
At 9:30am I rode the 17.4m/28km course through Hochsolling, during some northern German shit- weather.
Requirement: to arrive :-))
The course went up for 656 vertical ft/200hm and all that with cold muscles, but then came the first trail and it made up for the exhaustion, roots, rocks, holes before it kept switching between uphill and downhill.
The icing on the cake was the last trail, about 12in/30cm "wide" and full of big ol' roots and an endless number of mud holes. This is where you definitely lost your mind. However, the last 1.5m/2,5km were strictly downhill all the way to the finish line, where I arrived at 11 o'clock.
It was extremely fun and I rode out to the award ceremony out of curiosity and was a little surprised, to put it mildly, that I had actually come in in 3rd place.
Greetings Claudi

3rd place (silver): Liv Susanne, 39m/63km.

See you!!!! Turn your sails to the south, I'm off to the high ground training camp in the Ziller valley in Austria and then in to the direction of the Garda lake. (As preparation for the Plettenberg Marathon the Internal Pirate Championship)

P.s. After everyone had made themselves sweaty and all the Maxim bars had been eaten, the bikers fed on raw meat.