This was hard - i.e. fast! PJ & Rich beat me - if I'd realised Rich was in front I might have tried harder. Brendan was quick but lost time because of problems with his cassette. Pepe had a good ride (despite a crash!!),and Corby valiantly brought up the rear on his relatively heavy Kona.
Official web-page 2007 results 2006 results
Photos for sale Search for Schotten +race_no. Me 771, Brendan 703, PJ 737, Pepe 494, Rich 501, Corby 752.
Rich's pics
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Simon: Why's your foot down Rich?
Rich: As you can see, I took a rather unconventional line. The normal way was just too easy.
The foot never went down, I just had to stick my leg out for balance because the way I did it was way more difficult and x-to-the-streme than you wusses!
Simon: I'm 50s down on last year :-(
But then I did ride it with my brakes on :-) and didn't get a decent wheel to follow on the fast stuff in the middle.
I preferred this year's course, seemed less Schotter than last year, thanks to the hurricane I presume. However, it was a bit too dusty and bumpy, and the other riders went too fast for it to be really great :-)
PJ: From what the chap was saying at the start , the course was altered a bit because of various tree suicides.... and it was harder as a result... probaly at least 50 seconds harder..
Corby: Let that be a lesson to the 21 people whose butts I kicked not to be messin! ;^)
Not to mention the fact that I "beat" the winner of the 90km race by almost a full 13min...
On the plus side legs feel fine so I guess ski touring did help.
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