2ni’s Blog

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.

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Aufgrund Krankheit und Verletzung fallen in unseren 2 5er-Teams (Recycling, Urknall) jeweils 1 Frau aus.

Wir suchen deshalb per sofort 1 Schwimmerin und 1 Dame egal welche Disziplin!

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Distance:   29.47km
Elevation:  837m
Duration:   1h59
Avg. Speed: 14.9km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

As I’m still a little weak from my last weeks sickness I chose to bike a shorter trail. I was inspired by gps-tracks.com as it does not go too high (there is still a lot of snow up there).

I parked my car at the railway station of Fehraltdorf.

The track has nothing very surprising. View singletrails; you are biking mostly on forest tracks. With the nice weather it was still great to be outside!

Distance:   33.16km
Elevation:  1181m
Duration:   3h56
Avg. Speed: 8.4km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch

Great diversified trip with Röbi around Alpnach and parts on the Jakobsweg. Several singletrails, especially the last one quite technical, stil some snow passages and grades until 27%!

I did take some water from a fountain, which was probably contaminated by the farmers manuring nearby. I didn’t really sleep last night. Next time I should take more care about cleanness on the fountains. So far I thought, it was no problem in Switzerland…

Distance:   28.59km
Elevation:  718m
Duration:   1h44
Avg. Speed: 16.6km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

Today I took an afterwork trail which was not too long. The beginning was a little boring, but then the trail followed a stream (Tobel). Great stuff, but not very technical.
I would not recommend to cycle that path on a warm weekend as there will probably be a lot of hikers on the path.

There’s a bikepark nearby, but I’ll check that one later.

Distance:   56.12km
Elevation:  1030m
Duration:   2h16
Avg. Speed: 24.58km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   tyuqrumkfvwqkcln.extended.tcx (including elevation alerts)

First evening trip on Monday after the change to summertime. It’s still getting dark too early. The trip was ok, there was again a cold wind (Bise) blowing around my ears. There are some short and very steep segments (up to 16% grade).

Distance:   10.8km
Elevation:  254m
Duration:   1h04
Avg. Speed: 10.6km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch

I was running along an official running track today. It’s a track from the Lauftreff, where you can follow the white signposts. If interested you can walk a short trip to the “tiger view” at the end. If you’re lucky you’ll be able to see the tiger on the rock from the zoo.

There’s a public changing room nearby, just check the map.

Distance:   21.42km
Elevation:  711m
Duration:   1h30
Avg. Speed: 14.1km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

More or less a home training tour. There’s diversity all over: nice sceneries, single trails, forest tracks, paved roads, steep pathes, jumps and stairs. One part on top of the mountain is quite exposed and not recommended for people who have no head for heights.

Distance:   83.58km
Elevation:  1283m
Duration:   3h33
Avg. Speed: 23.5km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   tyuqrumkfvwqkcln.extended.tcx (including elevation alerts)

There was some cold wind around (Bise). As the temperatures were already quite low, about 2°C the whole trip was not exactly as in summer.
But the selected pathes were great. Nice small roads without any traffic.

The highlight was as expected in Regensberg with the amazing view an its castle.

Distance:   30.62km
Elevation:  699m
Duration:   1h53
Avg. Speed: 16.1km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

Inspired by the original trail we gave the surroundings in Baden and Habsburg a try. The trail was very easy, always forest tracks or paved roads. There was no single trail and too much tarmac after my fancy.

But some nice views at the end of the first hill and at the castle in Habsburg rewarded the outgoing.