Well we are on the road! What a great day! The day started with a great Germany breakfast and a few encouraging words from Joerg our leader! We free wheeled down to the start as our hotel was up in the Wittenwald hills with a amazing view of the valley, so no warm up for us... A few of our group with possiblities for contesting the race did climb back up the hill to warm up a bit.. Pretty amazing to have 1200 riders line up for a start to a race... The race start with Queens "Flat Bottom Girls" always a favourite for cyclists.. After a few km we climbed out of Mittenwald and by the time we finished it we where in Austria.. Chris and I stuck to out plan of taking it easy today and for the most part did a pretty good job of it.. It is hard to let other riders pass you when you are feeling good ... There were some big climbs today... We climbed just over 2600 meters... Most of it on a 22km pass with pitches of 18% for several km's....do you know how to say suffer! well because we are taking it some what easy it wasn't to bad, having said that it is hard not to a little on a hill like that... one near casualty today was Ian when he over cooked a hair pin on the descent and went off the road .... He brushed himself off and continued to the finish ranting about watts or something! The views in Austia are some amazing that it was hard not to stop
and take move of it in...All in all a great day as everyone finished in good spirits and are ready to go again tomorrow!
We need to start saying caio as we ride into Itay tomorrow!
So Caio!
Jeremy
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