For the Start of the 3100 Mile Race - 125 km and 2000 m up (Klausenpass)

 

My starting point: 

Lake Lucerne,   434 m (1,424 ft), a lake with a lot of bends and arms reaching from the city of Lucerne into the mountains. (Click on pic to enlarge it).

After 10 miles the work starts over 15 miles with a climb of 1490 m.. (It took me 2 hours and 09 min with max pulse 178).

After almost two hours I can see the Klausenpass 1952 m / 6404 ft at the right site. But I still had two hard miles to go.

 View down to the valley where the climb started...

It says dangerous route!
Unfortunately there were recently two casualties with dead people on that pass.
So down in the valley the police was warning the motorbike drivers to be careful. On a sunny day, there are up to 120 motorbikes passing you during the 2 hours up and the 30 min down.
(Actually I had for 1400 m down over 13 miles a time of 32 min which placed me 88th place out of 470 riders on Strava. Average speed: 40 km and max 65 km

Klausenpass from Ziegelbrücke 103 km and 1800 m

To get an idea, how much I have to climb today, I took this picture of Rautispitz 2283 m, which towers 1800 m over Glarus. This is the equivalant height I was climbing today: 1800 m.

 

The actual climb is 1300 m over a distance of 21 km (half-marathon), which I did in two hours.

This is the view of the last 25 min about 3 km.

 Here are the stats of today's training with temperatures over 30 C.

CYCLING CHALLENGE JUNE 2015 Day 2

On today's ride I passed the lake of "Katzensee" three times...

.... here you see my laps, which I rode in my lunch break and after work.

Cycling Challenge June 2015 INTERNATIONAL MONTH OF CYCLING

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In the morning still with fever and high pulse 65 instead of 44 out of bed, I cancelled the start into the month of cycling. But at 7:30 PM after  work I couldn't help but go on the bike.

And it was worth - after a short summer rain - I saw this beautiful rainbow!

Maximum pulse was with 149 on the Hüttiker Pass, with 17% a really steep climb, but with 6 min also short. Average pulse was 115, which shows that I am not yet really fit.