On Friday I got my „repaired“ car back from the garage and fastly we packed it, but we forgot half of the stuff. Than finally on Saturday morning we drove over the A7 heading north. To the nothernmost 24h race of Germany and for the longest night, about 12h...
Luckily the rain stopped short after the start of the race, only the ground was still slippery.
Sadly only Stephan had to fix the one or the other bike of the team-members...thank you for that....by the way...
Even Mrkus visited us with his noble car...
The first hours were ver really fast and when we saw ourresults, we thought not bad. Torben was 3rd and Jost 4th fastest rider of the complete field.
Rainer had several jobs to do, like multi tasking, he was caterer, masseuse, photograpf and like a high spirits bear...thank you Rainer...
...and soon, the first lights were fixed...
Well, on my first light round, I had a flat tyre...
Mighty Jule changes here to Joe...
Suse and Dani by talking...
Now the night was at his darkest point…and just when, Joe´s lights cancelled their job...
Even Moni rode, and rode on with her mate Andreas, like a clockwork...
Stephan showed us his brand new spoke LED-light, damn it´s awesome...
and suddenly morning has broken and Jost were all empty and just tired of all...
Andre...still in good shape, even after 41rounds with each 5km...
Here the last technical talk between Jule and Suse...
…and Toddy, yes you can ride one more…
Andre, chapeau, chapeau, you are the best endurance Pirate at MTB races...
last change between Jost and Stephan..
What about Moonreker? Chapeau as well, she did 39rounds with each about 5km…
And Dani had to spent wind shadow for some men...
Finally it was all over, and the 2-mixed team, were allowed to eat an ice-cream...
Even Rainer wass all satisfied with us...
Here weg go…the winner of the 2-nixed team, Andre and Moni with together 80rounds…
further on....winner of the 4-mixed team: Dani, Torben, Stephan and Jost with 97rounds...
Press, please smile...
and finally…winner of the 8-mixed team: Silke, Suse, Julia, Toddy, Heiko, Tom, Joe and myself…
At the end, we were all happy, and than it was time for the lottery....AWESOME...Joe and myself recieved some prices.
On the picture you can see the organizer Klaus, with microphone, who did a really good job on his first 24h race.
Here you can see out trophy´s....no, no, not that one in the middle...
And here we are, almost the whole team only Silke and Heiko are missing, because they have to left earlier...to get to an other event...
more pictures:
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Ron
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