Pirate-flag on the podium in Detmold…

After the 24h race in Duisburg, it was time for me to fight my first very own single Pirate-attack. So, I started in Detmold on a 3h race alone. Okay, I wasn´t all alone, the Döring-famila was as well on the start. Finally I´m back in the dirt after the whole roadbike races during the summer, because of the lack of MTB-races.   Well, 3h aren´t that long, when you don´t look at the course and the speed, it should be some kind of bearable but anyhownthe course in Detmold is really bestial, because at no part of the curse you got the chance to recover a bit and you always ride at your highest limit. It´s like all you can eat, the whole course, just eating your km´s until you´re drop dead. Last year I won this race, and this year, I only wanted to ride this thing better than last year, and I made it like this. I started from far behind, it´s not the perfect position, because in the front, it soon become narrow and you weren´t able to pass on the small meadow trails, but somehow I made to the front and further. In the first round I was behind Andre, and now we knoe for sure, that women aren´t able for multi-tasking, because I drank, pushed the pedal realy hard on the bitumen, and just escaped a crash with a barricade, because Andre warned me about, just seconds before…Thank you Andre, again. After 1h with my pulse over 180 I thought, if you gonna go on like this, you´ll soon get cramps or hit the man, but somehow I made it and I did not slow down the rpm, I just drank very much, but not during the end of the round. While I worked my ass off....What???....It seemed like Andre ate the whole you race or did he even race? ...but at least it seemed, that it was very tasteful...! In the last but one round, I haven´t thought about anything anymore, just if I would die soon or rode backwards down the hill…but than, a woman passed me, which was the future winner of the race, I thought, this is it, good bye and whatever… Than in the last round I saw a bike high up in the air, and a few moments later a human on the ground, I stopped and asked if everthing is allright, it moved, allright, still alive and one already called the medic. Well, get well soon, hope nothings broken because even myself was sometimes faster than 50km/h, that hurts for sure. After 3:10h and 12rounds Ifinished this sadomasochism with an average pulse of 177. Whew,  not bad, tis was just inches before bursting, in contrast of this were the Cyclassics something like a child´s birthday.  But I´m satisfied with my result, because I rode one more round than last year and was one minute faster. I ended up on th 2nd place overall in the class for riders with a liscense  and rode with a time of 14:07minutes the fastest round of every women. YES, now I think the crossing season can  start, because we were dirty like in an cross-race. After the race, we had some wonderful and tasteful dinner by the „ Lebenshilfe of Detmold“. It was really awesome, they had: cury-sausage with french-fries, and yes, Andre ate here again. The winner ceremony was some kind of chaos, because we rode without any help of electronic time coverage, so some one went three times for the winner ceremony in three differnet age-groups or classes, several documents had to be printed new and because of this, the ceremony lasted very long, but at least I received a box of tasteful lemonade, because the air-pump, I already received last year. But the weather became worse afterwards the ceremony, and than? What´s next? Yes, heading home and try to escape from Detmold in signaling speed, My document drowned in the rain and we had gushers out of the gully hole. Thank you, that I was ready and pooped.   And how about Andre, I think he was fed up...? J ? Because we weren´t able to take picture ( riding and eating), we borrowed some picture from the guys of Bike-Sport-Lippe, I hope its allright… Andre: 15th place  Sen.I/ 40 overall Victor: 7th place  U13 Monika Reker

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