For me the bike reason goes from October 1st to September 30th. So last Saturday was my last day in Season 2015, and yesterday started the season 2016. So it’s time to summarize the Season 2015.

• The winter season started quite well. We continues to do tours Saturday and Sunday regularly in the Schönbuch forest nearby. This brought quite some kilometres and conserved the form. Unfortunately I had an accident early December which caused a almost 5 week break, until I could restart in January to do further tours. During bad-weather weekends, we went a few times to the bike stadion in Öschelbronn, which was a lot of fun, and also I used my Tacx trainer to cycle at home in some evening and rainy weekends.
• Al in all, that was a good base for the training camp on Mallorca in April. That was again a lot of fun, with a great groups. We did a lot of training tours there, long ones and also a bit faster than previous year. That was a very good base for the season. Unfortunately I had a cold, had to pause for one day and another day just do a short easy ride. This trend continued also in May, I was sick for two weekends, but could do nice runs on the other two weekends. All in all, a good spring start.
• Road-bike:
  • 7802 km in total, 86 tours, on average 90,7km per Tour; in comparison to last year, a few years more, but especially we went really fast, more than 1 km/h faster average speed compared to last year
  • Total 291 hours of riding time; 27,27km/h total average speed
  • 74.970 meters altitude
  • 58 Tours < 100km (Ø 68,3 km; with 554m alt., 27,71 km/h)
  • 28 Tours > 100km (Ø 137,1 km; with 1531m alt., 26,36 km/h)
• Mountainbike:
  • 15 Tours
  • 949km total
  • 10.030m altitude
  • ~43 hours riding time
  • 22,4 km/h average speed
• Tacx Ergometer
  • 23 Trainings
  • 1.020 km
  • 33:45 hours training time
• All in all, this was the “best year” ever during my cicling career
  • 7.800km road-bike
  • 8.751km “outside” i.e. Road-bike and MTB
  • 9.771km total. The 10km mark just missed

Already looking forward to the next season and a “golden autumn”, the first Saturday yesterday was nice, but today we have rain.

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For me the bike reason goes from October 1st to September 30th. So yesterday was the last tour of the season, all tours still coming in 2014 will count to the season 2015 as “winter training”.

So what’s the statistic for the year?

• The winter was “bad”, very lazy, didn’t do anything except for some “spinning” (term?) in the sports-center with our bike-club trainer. So the season had to start with Mallorca, which was really great. Also this year I had a lot of motivated and fit participants for the bike tours of the club… that was really a lot of fun.
• Road-Bike:
  • 7005 km total, 84 tours, average 84,4km / tour; more km than last years and more tours. More shorter tours (due to the additional Thursday evening, but fast ones).
  • Total 276 hours of cycling time; 26,08km/h average across all tours
  • 67.000 m of total altitude
  • 57 Tours < 100km (Ø 63,8 km; with 516m altitude, 26,52 km/h)
  • 26 Tours > 100km (Ø 129,6 km; w. 1442m altitude, 25,1 km/h)
• Mountainbike: only one tour, ~54km

Already looking forward to the next season and a “golden autumn”.

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For a number of years I participate in the organized tours of my club  RSG and for the last 3-4 years, I organize the tours (RSG-Website, in German). Recently Brigitte who organizes the Holzgerlinger Lauftreff asked me if I could organize the routes for a few bike enthusiasts on Thursdays in the evening. So I volunteered spontaneously.

Last Thursday was the first tour, and I think it went pretty well. Every new group must learn a bit the coordination. We “lost contact” twice, and were a little disorganized to find us again, so finally we arrived back in two groups. Nothing that could not be solved the next time. The speed was a little bit high at times, again communication is something that can be learned 🙂

Although the forecast is really cold, we’ll do the second turn tomorrow. Looking forward to it and hope that people will come again and were not discouraged by the first time.