Alpenbrevet 2013

This photo is taken 15 min before the Alpenbrevet Cycling Race 2013 with 2480 participlants from 20 countries and 5 continents, where I placed 186nd from 640 participants in the Silver Tour (3 Passes).

Below is my first analysing of the race.
Interesting the descend from 2nd Pass "Furka" I managed for the distance of 12 km (7.5 miles) in 19:17 which brought me in the all time statistic of Strava.com on this descend on 34th place from 296 riders with an average speed of 37.5 km/h or 23.4 miles.
In the days statistic on Strava.com I was 10th out of 30 with 5 min behind the fastest downhill rider, who rode the tour in almost 5 hours and therefore was 2 hours faster.
Means: I still can improve a lot on the uphill sections, I guess :-)
Thanks for cheering me up inwardly and outwardly!

Alpen-Brevet

131 Kilometer / 3875 climbing altitude

2011

Time: 07:17:41

km/h-pace: 17.96

Sectiontimes:

Grimsel: 38.5 km = 02:26:23

Furka: 31.4 km = 01:56:24 = km/h pace: 16.26

Susten: 61.4 km = 02:54:56 = km/h pace: 21.0

2013

Time: 06:57:22

Km/h-Schnitt:18.83

Sectiontimes:

Grimsel: 38.5 km = 2:29.40 == + 3.17 min slower than 2011 = Km/h pace: 15.52

Furka: 31.4 km 1:35:10 ==    - 21.14 min faster than 2011 !!! = Km/h pace: 21.2

Susten: 02:29:49 (in about same time as 2011, as the dangerous route through about 5 tunnels with lots of traffic on both lines is neutralized

FINAL TRAINING BEFORE ALPEN-BREVET & THE YEAR’S STATS SO FAR

• 270 Hours
• 4,772 kilometers

• 119 Personal Records
• 176 Trainings 

Times of different Segments on Pragelpass

(clicking on the underlined times will bring you to the GPS map of Strava.com )

1) First climb 129th / 176 My Best Time 11:00 Ridden 225 times by 176 people Men 00:07:19 Philippe A. Women 00:08:29 Fiola Foley My Best Effort 00:11:00	Distance 2.0km Avg Grade 7.8% Elev Difference 153m Elev Gain 153m   Elapsed Time 00:11:00 Resting Time 00:00:00 Average Speed 10.8km/h VAM 837 Power 197W
130th / 184 2) 2nd climb My Best Time 54:09 Ridden 246 times by 184 people Men 00:31:26 Nicola Rohrbach Women 00:41:30 Fiola Foley My Best Effort 00:54:09	Distance 9.9km Avg Grade 6.9% Elev Difference 679m Elev Gain 681m   Elapsed Time 00:54:09 Resting Time 00:00:00 Average Speed 11.0km/h VAM 752 Power 175W
39th / 96 3) Downhill first part My Best Time 14:17 Ridden 115 times by 96 people Men 00:10:42 Patrick Bieler Women 00:13:30 Maria L. My Best Effort 00:14:17	Distance 9.9km Avg Grade -6.7% Elev Difference 660m Elev Gain 2m   Elapsed Time 00:14:17 Resting Time 00:00:00 Average Speed 41.5km/h Power 45W

Celebrating 1st August by riding Grimsel and Furka pass

Start was at 11 AM in Meiringen, the start-place of the Alpen-Brevet on 31st August.
There is a moderate climb to Innertkirchen of 6 km; then the Grimselpass begins and climbs 1540 m over 26 km (16 miles).

Last year I did the same ride, amazingly times are quite consistant:

Innertkirchen: 2012 18:44 2013 18:35
Climb to Grimselpass: 2012 2:13:00 2013 2:16:00

At the top of Grimselpass.

Downhill to Gletsch: 2012 10:20 2013 7:43 100th place out of 283 riders 
max speed 73 km/h average 42 km/h
Climb to Furkapass: 2012 1:05 hours 2013: 1:05 hours

At the top of Furkapass

Downhill to Realp: 2012: no time recorded 2013: 133^rd  of 236 riders18:57 37,1 km average.
But I was blocked by lot of traffic.
Transfer to Wassen: 2012 32:52 min 2013 33:22