A good way to say farewell to the season of 2017. On Saturday racing went very well. In a steep runnig section I pushed very hard each round and was able to smash the leading group. So I rode to the secound half of the race closely followed by Sven Weiterlesen…
Solid start of my cyclocross season – With less motivation after the both XCO Bundesliga races in the Black Forest, of which one ended with my first DNF, I headed to my vacation. After some relaxed training sessions I searched for the “kick off” for my 2018 season and found Weiterlesen…
6°C | rain | broken bearing stopped track check | crash during the start in front of me | safety first in the downhills | big crash in the last downhill – This was bundesliga race one out of two during my trip to southern germany! After the start trouble Weiterlesen…
MTB 3 Täler Marathon Titmaringhausen with German University Championship – 70km / 1700hm To collect some more race practise I made an excursion to the marathon distance, organised by USZ of the TU Dresden i found a „roundaboutcarelesspackage“ and 2:48 h of suffering. In the long uphills I was able Weiterlesen…
When I learned that the Brockenscheid is on vacation, I decided to go to Schierke for the last race of the Harz Cup. Since the spontaneous decisions are often the best, I went to the start of the middle distance. As usual, the usual suspects were at the start, Weiterlesen…
University – 9 exams / 4 weeks | r2-bike.com – Zipp stem Service Course 25° 75mm | Training – MTB Freital/Tharandt long and a lot of elevation | r2-bike.com – Absolut Black Oval chain ring 32T | Training – Roadbike Elbe longlong | r2-bike.com – 2x wheelset handcrafted | r2-bike.com – KCNC IS42/IS52 headset | girlfriend – best Weiterlesen…
Reutte – Marienberg, this is not necessarily the next way to get to the starting line of a MTB race. Especially because the short ups and downs there is not my favorite of a route profile. But it has become a nice tradition to share the trails in the Erzgebirge Weiterlesen…
Another good race for me! Starting again out of the second last start row I was able to brought an 18th position to the finish line. Track was a lot of fun and my feeling got better round by round. Sad about not overcoming the 80% rule by 25 seconds Weiterlesen…
Christiane, Tom, Phillip, Matej, Dirk and I formed our team rather spontaneously to indulge in our first (excluding Matej) 24h race as a 6-person r2-bike.com MTN CREW. Philip and Matej very kindly joined us last minute as a substitution, anyway they turned out to be much more than this! Our Weiterlesen…
LLong weekend – time for two races! Cross Country race in the Czech Republic went very well. The track was quite demanding but also held a lot of fun. Out of the secoundlast start row I raced up to 14th position in the end. Regarding the race category and the Weiterlesen…