When it will be summer agiain? Well, we don´t ask this question
anymore! After the blazing heat race in Wetter, I went one week
later to Albstadt for a 86km with 1600m of altitude race. They
called it – totally surveillance – But don´t think of an open
enforcement. I was just another kind of fixing the transponder.
There were over 300 starters in the biggest midday heat at the
start at high noon.
You were allowed to wait in the heat on an open and long street
for the start, even this was very strenuous. Whem I remembered
the heat race of last weekend I started up easily and always had
an eye on my pulse.
At the race we had a fantastic audience. This atmossphere in Albstadt
is something you had to know or better feel onetime in your life.
If this raptor waits for the first preys of the heat…? No one
can say…
The local hospital made an extra shift for todays race. It´s very
nice of them. During the race you were able to some guys, which
raced to hard and collapsed. So lying people on the sidewalk with
an oxygen mask on their face was no individual case.
At the end about 100 starters didn´t reach the finish line, some
also broke up after the third and last point of supply, even they
only had to go from here 13 or 14km.
I didn´t care for the time afterall. The main thing was not to
explode like the weekend before in Wetter. But if I tried to push
It harder, I bet it would had happen…
Now I got a rest period, one weekend off with no race and for
some other things to do insstead of MTB, maybe for a ride to Phalia
to buy some wine…
See You
Elvis |
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Pirate 
