Mornin' Everyone, the fourth stage is in the box. For me it was definetly the hardest day. With a sore ass, numb fingers, sunburn on my neck and extremly strained knee's, I could have only moved at snail speed. Hey those kinda days can happen. For me that meant that I had the oppertunity to admire this wonderful land even more.

Meinem Steuerman geht es dafuer wieder besser. Vieleicht sind ihm die beiden letzten Tage nicht so richtig bekommen, denn die Spur die er heute in dem Boden von Suedafrika gebrannt hat, war schon bemerkenswert.
Das nuetzt den Team und unserer Plazierung zwar nichts aber fuer sein Ego war es sicher mal ganz gut am Berg das Tempo zu bestimmen.
Ungluecklich war allerdings der Umstand, dass er die erste Kontrollschranke mit etwas zu viel Zeitdifferenz zu mir ueberfahren hat und wir jetzt wohl auf unser ohnehin schon reichlich volles Zeitkonto noch eine Zeitstrafe bekommen.

My first mate is feelin better. Maybe the last few days wernt so great for him because the track he left in South Africas ground, was very noticible. Unfortunatly that didnt help our team or our placing much but for his ego it was probably good to decide the tempo at a mountain for once. We ended up not bein to happy with the circumstances though, he ran over the controlpoint with to much time diffrence and we got a time penalty.

It remined me of the story with the Pirates with the two eyepatches, we all know how that story ended up. Well tomorrow we have the longest stage of this trip, 146km, but only 1800hm. well see how that goes.
Till then Ahoi and Chain to the Right,
Stefan Zimmermann
Team Bike Sport News - Pirate