The spectacular stage was yesterday… Today a flat tour to the east coast. The legs scream at times, but we go slow and easy … the tour is again really nice and worth every km.
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Soller Pass and Sa Calobra
Today was the spectacular stage of this years training camp. First we rode via Bunyola over the Soller Pass. To start the day, very nice tour, the climb was quite good to do, not steep. And also a very nice view, as you can see on the picture…
Down from the pass to the town of Soller and the buying tickets for the boat to go to Sa Calobra, which is THE climb, on 700m from sea level. Pictures will follow.
Update: created a biking picture page.
In total we did about 137km and 1800m altitude today.
Monastery Lluc
The tour today to the Monastery Lluc, we’ll return to Port Pollenca… so this will be a shorter tour.
Randa
The tour today: to and onto the Randa. 130km with 25,2 kmh average. Went quite well đ
Around Inca
The tour today goes inside the Island, via Muro, Sa Pobla, Campanet, Selva, Lloseta, Binissalem, Inca, and from there upwards onto the Puig d’Inca. Then back via Inca, LlubĂ, Sineu, Maria de la Salut, Santa Margalida to Can Picafort.
The pictures from Puig d’Inca: in the direction of the coastal mountains, where we are heading next week, and the other direction towards Can Picafort. Nice view.
Cala Rajada, Capdepera
Nice little tour, second for me… 35km to Capdepera, very windy today, probably taking a different way back, we’ll see how it goes
First tour on Mallorca â Cala de Sant Vincenç
The vacation did not start well. Last week Tuesday it started with a pretty bad cough, which slowly became better, but during the night to Saturday, the day of the flight, the nose started… developing a good head cold. And then on Sunday I felt so bad that I think it may have been the flu/influenza that got me. So I stayed “in bed”, just some light walking to the beach enjoying a bit of sun…
And then today, I already feel a lot, a lot better. So I did the tour that my group did yesterday… just to test out, very slowly, enjoying the warmth of the sun.
From Can Picafort to Cala Sant Vincenç it’s only 32km… with a slow average of 23km/h.
Bad luck again … first malfunction. A spoke on the back wheel is broken… have to get back to the hotel and bike-station, fortunately I got my bike-tools with me.
Martyn Ashton – Road Bike Party – YouTube
I move my bike totally unspectacular. That’s certainly nothing for me, but fun to watch!
Martyn Ashton – Road Bike Party – YouTube.
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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 (Ă 60,1 km; with 471m altitude)
- 17 Tours > 100km (Ă 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…
Link to my biking-page
RTF/Radmarathon – RV Pfeil Magstadt e.V.
Today was THE day of the bike year:
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 WĂŒrm 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 đ 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.