Freitag, 2. Dezember 2011

With the 1st Rain My New Bike came

In Switzerland it hasn't rained for over a month. This hasn't happend in the month of November in the last 150 years. But right to the first rain and my bike winter training Marjan from Slovenia arrived with my new SCOTT CR1 2012. Altough I rode for the first time with SPD Ultegra Pedal I immedialtey felt home on my new SCOTT bike. So I am happy that I have chosen besides my SCOTT Addict R2 - for races - the CR1 for trainings. The SCOTT frames really fit me well.

Sonntag, 31. Juli 2011

Training for Alpen Brevet: Sustenpass (2224 m)


To prepare for the AlpenBrevet on 13th August, I did  the Sustenpass from Wassen: 17,7 km with the climbing altitude of 1308 m.



The road starts climbing immediately through a narrow valley and later on the road becomes a little bit flatter and passes after 11 km through the village “Fährningen”. After the village the climb is most of the time at 7%. Psychologically difficult is that the road is straight up and you always see how far you have to go. 



On the top it was freezing cold (3 C) and my bike computer immediately stopped working. As there was already rain on the climb, I was happy to bring a 2nd rain-jacket. The first one was wet after one hour. So I managed the 1.602 m downhill to Innerkirchen over 27,7 km. There were a lot of tunnels and the road really wet, so I am sure, I didn’t do it in 25 min as the riders of the Tour de Suisse with average speed between 80-90km/h. Cavendish’s top speed was 107 km/h and this also with rain and not knowing the road. He must have had also some fear, I guess.





After Innertkirchen I continued on to Meiringen the start and finish village of the AlpenBrevet and then over the Brünig Pass (1008 m) with a climb of 412 m. Today’s total: an estimated 110 km and 2100 m climbing altitude (my bike computer stopped on the Susten!).



Sonntag, 12. Juni 2011

Sonntag, 29. Mai 2011

Training with Andreas up Ibergeregg (1406 m)

We met in Zoug and rode along the lake of Zoug to Schwyz with some nasty steep hills. But this was just the beginning:

We climbed the 800 m up in 1 hour and 2 minutes; well Andreas was a few minutes faster. Below you see my average puls as well as my maximum. (After 1:57 maximum pulse 170 and average was 150).
The sunny weather, the apple juice on the top was worth the effort.



After we rode back to Einsiedeln and then Andreas went on to Zoug and I took the easy downhill to the lake of Zurich (Pfäffikon).
Total 81 km 3:30 up 1379 min and 144 average pulse.

Sonntag, 22. Mai 2011

Bike Training between Germany and Switzerland

Today I took the train from Zurich to Rafz to meet my old running-friend and duathlete Roger.
He took me on a beautful and very senic tour around the "Hallau", which is in the northern part of Switzerland, bordering to Germany, whose border we crossed four times. The distance was 72 km including four hills, two of them really steep (total altitude was 950 m). Back in Rafz we had 2:49 minutes on our bike-computer with an average speed of 25 km.



View from the top of the first of the four hills we passed on our bike-tour between Germany ans Switzerland around Hallau (Canton Schaffhausen).

Sonntag, 3. April 2011

2011 Bike Season Start

Zurich - Uster - Oetwil - Meilen - Zurich: 55.4 km 2:07 average speed: 26 km