Moin Pirates,

just before getting started I gotta tell ya, that there aren´t many pictures of the race, while the official picture service cancelled this event just before the start. I received this information just a few days after the race after long and dogged questions of myself. But it is like it is. If I knew it before, I would have taken a picture from me just before the start. Back to the race. It was a dry day but it was cold, too cold for this time of the season. The course was partly muddy and slobbery, well the bike looked like that after the race. I wanted to race on the middle distance with 42,5km and 1150m of altitude, but you were allowed to choose during the race to change on the longer distance, but I didn´t do that, because the weather and the floor conditions weren´t the best. You also had to push/shove your bike on an 2km long uphill part, to ride here was almost impssible. Good thing was that I did during the exercise a little bit of jogging, so I came quite good up the hill. Finally my time was 2:34h this was the 50th place in my aga-group and the 163th overall from about 269 starters. I was satiesfid with my result. Now, I heading for one week to Lake Gardo, holidays afterall, but I think I´ll ride the one or the other tour, while I´m there and of course I´ll take some pictures and will report it to you. Mike Heins

<<< zurück