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Hello Pirates,

Willingen showed himself from his best side on marathon day as far as the weather concerned. What you couldn`t say from the days before. Just two words to say to define the days before: Rain and Coldness

Ubi took the short round, which was started on a new course, with 51,2k´sand 1467DA(Difference in Altitude ). He made up an awesome time for the trail and in his age-group (Grandmaster,what a name). He finished third just 1s behind the second place and only 7,57s behind the first


I also started on the short track, but from another starting block ( C ), very far behind. Just after the start there was the problem, that the peleton stayed together, this went on right up the whole mountain (the Eimberg).
On the first part of the course, it almost come to a stagnancy on the tarred road. Not even the pülse could rise, you had just to watch that you don`t get tangled up with the other riders. Even the organizer tried to get rid of these traffic jams by deviding the starts into three different starting blocks and times (7:30, 7:45 and 8:00). Probably the organizer should think about to start some other way, to loosen up the peleton,currently with such a huge number of participants of the marathon in Willingen. But...Anyway...In case of the heavy rains the days before, a few of the trails were really muddy. How you can see on the bikes…


Because of the mud, I even had to stop one time to get rid of it, because in the back nothing worked right anymore.
When I arrived at the finish line, I almost rode passed it, but I wasn´t the only on… Finallay, on the 3 stages were about 1501 riders in the list of results.Some had to give up because in the starters list were about 1719…


After the race Stephan, myself and Stephan family chilled out with only just a low amount of alcohol. But the chain of activity didn´t work right, because we wanted to go to the riders party in the brewery, but we had to queue up like all the others, and later their wasn´t any püossibility to get inside. But there`s always something positive about, you could get to bed early and so...Stephan could start at the next day Enduro race with his eyes wide open. Well, let´s see, what he has to tell about it from the Wheels of Speed...

Greetings Elvis



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