It was hot, very hot and the sun burned my salty skin. I have never before looked death in the eye as clearly as I did last weekend.....
Our prestige goal 2005 was scheduled for last Sunday for the Dreisamtal Pirates.
The Black Forest Ultra Bike marathon is not only the biggest marathon in Central Europe, it also passes right by our fromt door.
Apart from that this marathon, a 50m/80km lap with 6890 vertical ft/2100hm, is viewed as an internal "world championship" by the locals!
And apart from that there were, once again, about 2200 participants on the course.
The Pirate-South-Connection with Daniel Fach, Matthias Glaser and Sönke Wegner was well trained and ready to go at 8am. Right from the start we were able to move up to the front and so we were spared from the mass crashes.

On the first 5.6m/9km uphill, a lead group of about 7 bikers emerged. Following them were the pursuers with Sönke followed closely by Matthias and Dan.
There was fighting, drinking and gorging.
But unfortunately the success of being among the top 10 remained a pipe dream, because Sönke got a flat tire right before the last ascent and fell slowly from 8th to 13th place.

Sönke Wegner during the last uphill struggle.

Matthias Glaser

Matthias Glaser, Sönke Wegner, Daniel Fach

Results:
13th. Sönke Wegner 3:10 h
26th. Matthias Glaser 3:21 h
46th. Daniel Fach 3:26 h