Moin Piraten,

Posted by Ron Prinzlau On November 11, 20130 Comment

Bulletin by Jost Litzen

Translated by Bjørn Henschke .

The race of the year, the P-Way, offered the chance. Finally to show Stefan “Dano” Danowski, my back wheel.

We arrived a day earlier, highly motivated, and made our way to take a look at the course. It started to rain, but at least we rode a few km`s. I thought to myself, the early bird, catches the first start row and so, the best riders and pro´s collected themselves right behind my bike. It must have been a really good place last year.

Even behind the leading car, the fight for the places began. Until the mountain goat, I still had Dano in sight and also Andre Zamponi, but than I catched a chasing group to save some power. It was hard to recognize, who was who, because you could just see at the pink numbers, who rode the long distance.

During the middle of the race, Betty Uhlig, the German University Champion in the marathon distance came up from behind and soon we were a group of three and end the race together. At the end, I finished on the 44^th place over the long distance

Here some more pictures: http://www.sportograf.com/bestof/2152/index.html

At the end of September I headed north, to Wittenborn. I dated myself with Thomas Strobel, to ride a 24h race in a team of 2. And because of the fact, that we are quite new in the scene, we didn´t know what the others are up to. The organization by Klaus Röhr was really good. The only thing, which didn`t work, was the food supply. But next year he promised it will be better. It started quite fast right from the beginning.

The changed the course of last year. Ittook 11min and you full concentration. We decided to ride 2 rounds and than change. Everything went really good. Thomas already tried to wear the Pirate jersey and we almost hit the same lap times

Our plan, to start full throttle, was really good, after 6h we were 3 rounds ahead. During the night our lead growth. After all we won the race.

Some more pictures: https://picasaweb.google.com/113415213077866032253/24StundenMTBWittenborn2013?noredirect=1

MY last race of the season, was the 280km TT from Hamburg to Berlin. The only change to last year, was, this time we had rain. Heavy rain falls. We were all wet after 2h.

During the race we collected some riders, who tried to ride with our group, while we rode 30km/h average speed. After 100km was a check point by the guys of Twobeers/ESK. And after the check point the weather became better and of course we talked a lot, and rode and talked, and…

After all, it was a wonderful contest with lots of funny guys and friendly people and a nice course to Berlin.

Finally the annually Halloween Alleycat of Berlin. It couldn´t get much more aimless

The first order was to bring a parcel from the Barbarossaplatz to the Brandenburger Tor. And we, like some others didn´t listen really good and rode directly to the Brandenburger Tor, instead of to the Barbarossaplatz. I rode behind a Pipi Langstrumpf, 5 zombies, a heavy weight biker and a cook with pot and a pig. But…all right, we lost lot´s of time while we rode really fast and furious thru Kreuzberg.