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Wait, no wy, it´s not  Pipi Langstrumpf, it´s me and mysubcriberto the  3rd place ! Vattenfall Cyclassics 159 km: 3rd place overall & AG Bremen Challenge 136 km: 6th palce overall & 3. Platz AG   Just some quick notes of the Vattenfall: Even the Picture-factory wasn´r able to get some pictures of me: 5 heavy crahes in the front of Block A, groups were always changing, my brake broke when I rode over or thru a hole in the street, like I brake for myself, while I wanted to fix it while I´m still riding I seized my fingers and so I lost contact to the group at km 100 and to Steaphan, but after a 15km TT, I made contact again. It´s really hot today, after the race I drank about 7l, later in the night  about 1,5l in one zip and even on Monday I was thirsty... So, now the bulletin of fucking Bremen: It´s like a hoe match and because of it, we were having a party on the day before the race in lovely Dötlingen r Raini´s mansion... ...Dessert of Majorca: Almond Pie and stuff like these, you only recieve headaches from it Bütti and myself already recieved our starting package and remarked that no one wanted to see our ID, in the bag, we find a drinking bottle, maybe we should putt he number inside the bottle, throw it into the water, like message in a bottle...Just a mean thought... The race started at 13:00o´clock and Ron and Jost wanted to ride fort he victory, Not my game, I wanted to race and ride in my style and my speed, because I knew before that I wouldn´t have a chance to ride for the victory, even while you got hobby-teams and Beate Zanner. Anyway 120km are long... The start of the race was some kind of stupid by the organizers, the streets were all narrow and than you had to cross a railway junction, now you lost contact to the front group. Maybe for the next time, you put some ropes into the railsway, by the way, Schoki didn´t make over the railway For more than two rounds I rode two fast and to hard in the wind, than I searched a group who rode an equal speed like me. The wind was really hard, even the 180degrees turn arounds and the small but hard ascents of Bremen,than of course we had the best northern Germany weather, pouring rain, it was like 8 rounds in a looping roller coaster. Sometimes my group was to slow for me, but there was no sight of any other group. Nowhere on the course were any point for the food supply and this at a long distance race…Hello???? Hey organizer, that´s a no go.... Lot´s of riders had to struggle because of a lack of nutrition and had to quit the race.... After the rain in round 6 I saw Thomas right in front of me, he also had to let go. Ron already was out of the race and Jost had to give up in round 7. I took a look on my bike computer: 120km, the counter of the rounds told us 2 rounds to gor. I ask Marcel Wüst and he said yes, two more rounds and the whole group said, we don´t have anymore water or nutrition. Thanky you to the organizer for the lack of information in the annoincements. 16km more to ride is a hard thing, when you plannes your race before otherwise. Some more riders burst, now I was in the lead of the group of 3 riders left. Bütti arrived 7 minutes after me the finish and was the 3nd Pirate crossing the finish line. He still had to wait for moret than 45minutes for his shower, because there was just one for all. Later Enrico and Stephan arrived at the finish totally exhausted. After all it was a really bad organization of the race, the course isnt´t really good for a 120km long distance race.Wait, and such a public race  lives of the participants, it would be nice, when the announcer and the round counter would quit their job after all the celebs are in the finish, because the arrival at the finih blocked almost the whole course for the other participants, who still have to ride some rounds. How about the finish home straight outside of the course??? Like at the Vattenfall??? For myself I gonna say, I´ll only ride in Bremen, but no longer than 55km, I´m really dis-appointed of this normally good idea, of a race in Bremen. Maybe you take a look at the DNF in your results.The food supply belongs on the course and not behing the barricades and was nothing really worthy besides apple, banana and water.... But at least I´m satisfied with my performance, there was nothing for me to get, in a race like this Special thanks to the guys of “Team Langen”, which spent lots of wind shadow for me and of course to Thorsten for the pictures. Greetings Moni

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