Ciao landlubbers, after the hardcore "Mad East Challenge 3" in the Ore Mountains last weekend and the following ride to Trentino, we took the bike shuttle up onto the Tremalzo totally relaxed. What took place then was downhill-rock-'n-roll of the highest degree, all the way to Riva...

But back to the "MEC 3":
After the prologue on Friday; riding up the mountain on a 3m/5km singletrail and coming in in 8th place in my division: nursing level, um, master 2 and after they credited me 20 seconds, what a joke, it was in the bag...
the long ride followed on Saturday. 60m/97km with a little lap at the beginning and a sprint up the mountain on a fiendish cross country trail. I don't really do well on moistened meadows...
Preliminary result after the root-rubble-mud craziness: 9th place. Sunday morning we started out taking the t-bar lift straight as an arrow up the ski slope, for the cross-border marathon into the Czech Republic. 44m/71km and a little bit of losing one's way, but all that didn't matter, since wqe all had our passports in our jersey pockets...
At the end of the day, I was in 7th place at the "Mad East Challenge 3" in my division...
I'm going to keep quite about the fact that my teammate "Mady Winter" and his singlespeed cashed and spent me on the last two marathon legs...
Next Sunday the plan will be to participate here in Trentino, in the "Paganella Bike-Marathon", the 3rd run of the italian Rampitour series, on one of my favorite distances 26m/42km and 4429 vertical ft/1350hm...

Ubi Blutsventje, esoteric ship's kobold of the Hoppetosse,
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