Posted by Ron Prinzlau On Mai 28, 20140 Comment
Translated by Bjørn Henschke
Obviously I just wanted to attend Julia and Nele, but than, thank you Suse Rautenberg, than everything got changed.
I overcomed myself and registered myself, for my very first MTB race, ever. The short one, Ronda Piccola 44,79km with 1523m of altitude, Julia did the Ronda Grande with 75,7km and very impressive 2822m of altitude.
On the first day, heaven welcomed us and it kept raining the whole day.
But we used this day wisely, and did things what you should do, when you are in Italy and it´s raining, besides riding MTB…
buying shoes…
ate lots of Ice-cream
Drinking Aperol…
But the Frutti del mar, we left for someone else.
We went to bed early
…to be ready for the trip the next day.
I was very glad about meeting Nina and Jessy in the starting block. Both of them took my flurry´s away and taught me about the upcoming course.
About the race, 28,63km are further than I thought and 702m of altitude are higher than I thought it would be.
Finally, I made it over the finish line, and I wasn´t the last one…
Really happy, I met lots of well known faces in the finish area. Nina and Jessy waited already for me, thank you. Congratulations Nina, 2nd women and more than an hour faster than me…
Here we are, sitting, relaxing, we gave everything we could, and we happy about the fact, being together again…
Our last day, we just enjoyed the sun.
Conclusion: We had fantastic days with beloved friends while we stayed in the wonderful town of Riva del Garda. It´s always nice to be a Pirate, a wonderful communityOur plan is, to repeat this again soon.
Having said this, lots of Pirate Greetings…
Your Gaby
