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275 km time trial Hamburg-Berlin. How is this possible?

Well, I ask myself all the time. How is this possible? Although I start with Steven Brown of our Sunclass Cycling Team and one of his friends Triabolos triathletes, but so much wind shadow such as last weekend at the Münsterland Giro will be little the ...

slope in the mountains near Coesfeld tree. Hurt ...

Okay, so let's start like this: to my recumbent times I went to multi-day tours daily average 150-180 km. No problem - the whole record and then by more than 3 weeks, with rest days every 3 to 4 stages easy to achieve.

My furthest single track on the Recumbent were 240 km (from Hamburg to Graal-Müritz) and the same the next day. Was crass - but thanks to the luxurious sauna at your destination, a sumptuous breakfast and the encouragement that my friends were traveling on the rainy back alley and the only hard as I drove through the rain to sow the wheel, it has let me create.

But all now on a road bike?

The Münsterland Giro was 125 miles long ...

What is the situation with long-distance trips on road bikes? Well, I remember the longest track I'm so far down with my Cervélo R3 - that was in July in Italy, as I spent on a stage of 144 km and almost 6 hours of hard racing Prologo saddle. The 155 km of the

Vattenfall Cyclassics saves me from time - that was a race with lots of wind shadow and so much adrenaline - something is out of such a circus to reproduce hard. So

275 km. On the Road?

Let's put it this way: up to 60 km road cycling's just fun. You can enjoy the speed, the acceleration and the air to a hard bang to the nose, roll everything you have good legs and even ironed slopes of the carbon-powered car away like nothing.

... the Cyclassics were 155 miles long ...

starts from 80 km is then to annoy slowly, hunched back, the wrists come forward and the thighs, it could also imagine quite good to be alternatively simply beaten only on the living room table to the legs have a nice sofa-TV to spend evening.

does it just hurt from 100 km only. The ass on fire ("How should I sit here because, on the narrow, hard thing ?!"), of neck pain (" Oh, I just watch all 20 turns up, otherwise I look relaxed on the asphalt below me. .. ") and in the head haunt funny thoughts about (" Chess is actually a demanding sport. ").

... However, HH-B is as long as both races together!

are now but 100 km, or, say, 140 km just half of what awaits me in the time trial Hamburg-Berlin.

I'm sure all that is over 160 km distance beyond obsolete, no one from the legs, but of the psyche. And that's why it works: to have mental strength. So prepare for that one, neither the distance nor - in mid-October so the chances are very good - massive head wind, freezing cold, rain or have broken down will affect it.

But how do you train it? No idea - to systematic training was with me in 2010 not to think. But I have since two Strategies.

First, I will not make me mad. Second, I plan only the intervals.
can not make crazy?

Whether in Berlin also applaud?

Well, I do not equip it cumbersome for this tour. It starts in lighting, goes beyond the clothes and ends with what I take. I do believe that you, the more you specify, and extremisiert, the more likely is.

I'll just clean my bike only to oil and grease to get the tires take up to 8 bar. Do not think too much. Not too much to plan the route in detail. Simple Let it roll - through ignorance, the naive naivety of a child, I will have many negative thoughts, brain tortures of Streckenpfofile, climb and all these Detailkram spared.

let Just roll.

Because I am first of all the way there anyway no turning back. I have to charge me not before.

And let's face it: The boys are 1910 ridden without gears, the Tour de France with 300-km stage. And as they went over mountain passes!

Done: The absolute best feeling in racing sport!

And Strategy 2: I plan my only break. Very simple. I set myself goals (km or time) where I make a quick break. Not long - 15, 20 minutes at most. Why? Because I am not then that is great, seemingly unattainable 275-km-goal oriented, but still only 30, 40 km in front of me until the next break.

As I said, get there faster is not my goal.
arrive, I will.

So, let's see what will happen to my plan. In most cases, is so different than you think. But, before appearing again (of course always welcome and welcome) clever tips and instructive comments: I am rocking the Rockies, driven by Japan and did some other hair-raising tour, since I live on Hamburg-Berlin but loose.

Or?

course!


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