On July 8, 2007, the time had come once again: it was time to conquer the Erbeskopf. Well, this time there was nothing much to conquer, since a bad cold threw a monkey wrench in my plans….!
When I was finally sort of healthy again, I had about a week to get myself sorted out. Shit happens… Whatcha gonna do….? The starter fee had been paid long ago, so I better do this thing!
I"ll just mark it off as "a paid for tour that just happens to include time measurement and a bunch of other participants"….!

As if I hadn't suffered enough, I was visited by good old Aunt Insomnia in the middle of the night: I finally passed out around midnight, only to wake up around 3 in the morning and stay up - great, well, at least I can have a nice leisurely breakfast! Damn it!
At least I was able to doze a little between 5 and 6am. And when my alarm finally rang - as was to be expected - I was nice and tired again and ready to sleep. The brand new 2007 team outfit that came in the mail, from Ron, yesterday, just in time for the event, acted as a small band-aid - Thanks Ron, it made my suffering a little more bearable. ;-)
Of course I still tried to do well in the race and it went alright for the first 25m/40km, but then I had to start letting more and more people pass me. This meant that I ended up in an honest 124th place (419 finished for the overall ranking, which wasn't divided into divisions: hobby, licensed and pros were all ranked together), which was fought for with a lot of sweat and love for the club.
By the way, the weather was great and, in my opinion, the track was marked off more clearly than last year.

Amilcar