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105 Days, 28.000 km

Not bad!

Stern: Record, 28000km in 105 days

The article is in German only, in short:
Thomas Großerichter came home on Sunday December 30th after cycling 3 months through Asia, Australia, North- and South-America and Europe, a total of 28.500km in 105 days, one hour and 44 minutes. After coming home in a town in “Münsterland”, he continued straight away, without a break, to Berlin, in order to celebrate new year there.

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Bike-Season 2012 finished

For me the bike reason goes from October 1st to September 30th. So today was the last tour of the season, all that comes next in autumn and winter is recovery, and to conserve hopefully the fitness.

Although it was relatively cool today, I felt quite good and did a easy and flat tour: 100,5km, 27,4 km/h avg. speed and about 550m altitude.

So what’s the statistic for the year?

  • No Ergometer-KM in winter/spring, leading to bad form in the beginning
  • Road/Race-bike:
    • 5550 km total, 79 tours, average 71,8km per tour
    • Altogether 226h 38m riding time; 25,28km/h average across all tours
    • 46.020 meters combined altitude gain
    • 62 Tours < 100km (Ø 60,1 km; with 471m altitude)
    • 17 Tours > 100km (Ø 114,6 km; with 988m altitude)
  • Mountainbike: less data …
    • 789 km on 17 tours, mostly prepared forest gravel roads, no “Trails”
    • On Average 46,4km with 415m altitude gain
    • In total 39h 4m riding time and a total of 7.055m altitude gain

It took quite some time in Spring to get back into “form”, but now at the end, I felt quite good. I’m looking forward to the next coming season…

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RTF/Radmarathon – RV Pfeil Magstadt e.V.

Today was THE day of the bike year:

Ausschreibung Nordwschwarwald Rundfahrt

RTF/Radmarathon V Pfeil Magstadt e.V..

For me, rather “mixed” result: originally I had planned the Marathon distance this year again, but already weeks ago it got clear, that I’m not fit enough for that. So planned the “Tour A”.

Today in the morning at 7:00am I started with the Bike form home, another approx. 20km to start/finish in Magstadt extra (was that a good idea?); then started at 8:15am in small group of like-minded … until the first stop in Bad Teinach more or less together, then three of us did Tour A and the others diverted to the shorter Tour B. Like I expected, I was the slowest uphill and the other two had to wait a little each time. But all in all it went pretty well. Until the uphill section from Unterreichenbach to Hohenwart… the extreme heat today of ~35-38°C made this really tough for me. Well, I managed until the next stop for water-refill. But on the next uphill section out of the valley of Würm to Tiefenbronn I told my friends not to stop anymore for me, but continue and I would do my pace. Which went on “OK”… until shortly after Perouse. Just about 15km to finish, the bowden cable for the gearshift ripped. Great 🙁  That of course can’t be reparied on the spot, so I had to call home to be get a ride back home in the car.

Result: 162km and 2210 m altitude done. But not a “real” Finisher.

And I admit: this was really hard, I’m dead tired now. Together with the Marathon 2009, this was the hardest bike-tour I ever did.