On June 17, 2007, the 10th anniversary of the UltraBike took place and since it's kind of my hometown race, I definitely had to start. All morning long, I kept hearing that there were a record number of participants, which I quickly found out for myself, because there were about 1000 bikers signed up just for the 26.7m/43km track.

DThis year, however, the location of the start was chosen so intelligently that you had to stand in line for 15min just to get into the licensed block last.

Oh well, this just meant that I had to make my way to the front quickly right from the start, which wasn't very easy on the flat terrain. After a while I made it to the lead group during the first ascent, but it was already starting to disband at that point.

Well, everything went well til the second incline and I had a good rhythm going, when I had to get off my bike to grab a water bottle, since the person handing me the bottle was still inexperienced and not capable of handing me the bottle in passing ;-) .....

So, the rhythm was gone and I rode up the third inline with my hand on the brake, because otherwise I would have gotten cramps again. Therefore, the last 6.2m/10km downhill weren't exactly relaxing and the muddy track didn't make it any easier. I finished 25th overall and 7th in my age division, which was pretty okay considering my bad luck.

Jonas