Yesterday it was the time – our first Night Rider was set, but riding thru the darknest is nothing foreign for us, because of Brevets, just finished with the 400k, 600k and 24h race you get to know to ride within the dark. Anyhow, the circumstances brought some new experiences: it was cold, wet and muddy – all I learned from that is: you never can have enough lights.

The race started a little bit delayed at 16:15o´clock and the Flauaus needed about two rounds to come near optimal temperature, just in time before after a fast change to the Bader who rode the next two rounds. We kept holding on with this changing ceremony,as far as possible. Until we had some technical problems after 3hours(the brake pad were down), we were forced to change the wheels and after a further round we had to change the lights. So, because of this little problems we weren´t the fastest while chan ging anymore, but when I remeber, no one was in hurry to get back on the course, becasue of the weather conditions, temperatures around 4degrees, neverending rain, mudy ground, fog and humid greenery made all this to a matter of moral.

But all this got rewarded, we reached the 2nd place in our age-group.