Exercise-camp on Tenerife

Finally on saturday, early in the morning at 4:00o´clock, my alarm clock woke me up. But it was all for free, because I wanted to catch my flight to Tenerife. I wanted to compete in a 12days lasting exercise-camp there. One the flight there, I had quite a good view over the Teide ( 3718m). Naturally I had my roadbike packed with my luggage, but when I arrived, came the first shock, the bike case was broken, at the point, where my gear was. But luckily, everything was allright after all, so I could go on for the first ride. During the next days, we collected meters of altitude, just to prepare us, for the major event, the ride for the Teide... On Saturday the 12th of march 2011, finally it was time. When we looked out from our balcony in the morning, the Teide greeted us welcome. We had no clouds on the sky, a good sign. Off we go, the first 10km were a little bit hilly just to being followed by 53km with 2300m of altitude, uphill.   It was really nice, reaching the peak. And now it was time for our long bike clothes, because riding 53km downhill, it sure will get a little bit cold. We had wonderful 12 days on the island, of course we swim and ran also, sadly we don´t have any picture to prove it. After all we had about 48hours of exercise and 17000m of altitude by bike. The only bad thing of our holidays was, that our beach from the hotel wasn´t like that, we had expected. But so, we were able to do some connected-units. Running for the next beach in the village nearby, and jump there in the atlantic ocean. I think, the season can start now and I think it will do so, on Sunday, when I want to participate on a half marathon in Bad Kreuznach.   Stay in shape, Doro

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