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Distance:   36.1km
Elevation:  1106m
Duration:   3h19
Avg. Speed: 12.9km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

Last weekend Adrian and me went on a tour around Davos. We chose the path by using a Bikemap for Davos. There is a short part on the map, which says you should cycle that part in the opposite direction on the map. We ignored it. It was very steep (> 20%) for about 3km on an unpaved road! But it was doable and worth it.
There are great singletrails on the trip (about 30% of the whole track).

You could probably stay a little longer on the singletrail in the Sertigtal and drive to Sertig Dörfli instead of going down on a very steep bumpy unpaved road.
At the end you can fly down a paved road in order to try to get a new speed record.

Fantastic. I really loved this trail and can recommend it.
Be aware of the 3km very steep part just after Monstein though. The singletrails are all cyclable with a difficulty of 3.5 (max 5).

Distance:   61.5km
Elevation:  486m
Duration:   2h11
Avg. Speed: 28.0km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

I’m working in Lucerne once in a while. So to keep more or less on track with my training I cycle one way and the other way goes by train. Even if it’s a little mess to take the sbb with a cycle on the rush hour I have the advantage to be faster at the company from the railway station.

I’m still trying to find out the best way keeping the elevation low. Seems to be not that simple, as there are some bottlenecks regarding the road system.

Besides some parts on large roads, this proposed route seems to be an option. The cycling path (thank you veloland) around Meggen and the cycling road between Risch and Cham are fantastic!

The dark sides: The outgoing road from Lucerne as well as the surroundings in Bar/Zug are messy and noisy. The sihltal can be quite cool (even in temperature mode) if there is not too much traffic. You can just cycle as speedy gonzalez there

I’ll probably tweak this track on some smaller part, but generally seen I could live with that one even if it takes some 10min more than the first one!

Unfortunately there are some working areas: Just before Meggen and in Fänn. Be sure to follow the orange signs “Risch” even if you are on the road “Zug/Zürich” (Usability?!?) or you’ll end in a (temporary) one way road!

Distance:   51.05km
Elevation:  843m
Duration:   2h06
Avg. Speed: 24.7km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

I chose a shorter training tour today with some more hills on it. Actually the tour is quite rolling. I tried again to stay mostly on the pathes from Veloland Schweiz.

Originally I wanted to cycle along the airport of Hausen am Albis but I couldn’t find any paved road so I just gave up for that.
There is a water lilly exhibition some where on the track, unfortunately I can’t remember where anymore. I’ll check it next time. Funny what kind of exhibitions there are…

All in all I did like the tour. It’s a good training course as well, if you want to cycle some small hills as well and not go too long / too far on your cycle. Some kine of a short “Feierabendtour”.

(with Maltodextrin)

- 1 liter of water or tea (alternative: 7dl water + 3dl fruit juice)
- 30 g sugar (alternative sirup)
- 30 - 40 g Maltodextrin 19
  (see picture, available in Apotheke Sun Store in Migros-City)
- 1g (1/3 tsp) cooking salt (reduce at will)
- lemonjuice (at will)

To be used for trainings longer than 1h30.

I use Maltodextrin since last year now and I’m very happy about as I can get some more energy in my favorite drinking.

This is the second time I’m cycling that trip. But this time I took some time to take 2-3 photos…

Distance:   49.6km
Elevation:  432m
Duration:   1h56
Avg. Speed: 25.7km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

The part around the airport is just amazing. Funny how many people are staying there or sitting in their cars having lunch and watching the planes taking off and landing. I must say it’s quite interesting when the planes “fly around your ears” (german proverb) while cycling.

I’m not surprised anymore that people complain about planes flying too low over their village. Impressive!

You’ll follow the airport just near the fence:

There is even a mirror for the cyclists. I have only seen that in Gardasee (IT) so far…

You’ll use a funny cycling bridge:

That’s one for Röbi (ostrich farm):

It’s already a week ago and I had no time to write about it. It was great again (besides some small details), we had one, two amazing teams with great people!
I was the cyclist of the Team “Recycling”.
If you are interested in the tracks:

Things I should consider for the next time:

• There are no toilets on the parking lots
• There are no (or view) provision possibility on start and end
• The foodstop on the track is very bad (if you don’t like sponser stuff)
• Take a seat or mattress if you have to wait for a longer time in the transition area
• Time schedule of the team for every member in very small format
• The one who arrives, calls the upper next member, to inform about actual time
• Take a small flag on the transition area to simplify search
• Eventually make use of Google Latitude

I did not take one picture. But there are some photos available here, here, here and here.

Distance:   27.9km
Elevation:  910m
Duration:   2h13
Avg. Speed: 12.6km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

I chose a shorter biketrip this time as the Gigathlon and June are still in my legs.

As there were no reviews of this track I didn’t know if it was going to be good. It was!

The track has everything you want: short steeper uphills, flowing single trails, technical challenges, nice scenery, paved roads, unpaved roads, large and small pathes.

Probably about 20% of the track contains single trails. The first one going down to Biberbrugg is quite annoying because of not cyclable waterchannels though.

I started Richterswil with the sun but unfortunately stopped in a refuge because of too much rain. Fortunately it stopped after 10min and I could finish the trip.