Otztaler Radmarathon

[heliphil]

Off to Austria tomorrow for the Otztaler Radmarathon on the 29th - still very apprehensive about all those 'hills'

 

[Telemark]

Off to Austria tomorrow for the Otztaler Radmarathon on the 29th - still very apprehensive about all those 'hills'

All the best! When he did the "Oetzi", my cousin said that Timmelsjoch near the end is quite hard, so keep a little something in reserve ...

Looking forward to seeing your report on here afterwards

T

 

[fimm]

Good luck! My boyfriend did this a few years ago - I'd love to do it sometime (need to get ever so slightly stronger on the bike first...) I hope you enjoy it.

 

[HJ]

Good luck and enjoy

 

[heliphil]

Well I did finish - in some ways it was not as hard as I thought, but its still a long way, you just have to keep going on the climbs at a steady pace. We were lucky with the weather, not too hot and no rain, but it was cold at the end and I did not have enough layers to keep me warm on the descent from the Timmelsjoch.... freezing cold hands and trying to keep the speed down is not easy.

my time
12:33.54,8

other GB finshers
http://services.datasport.com/2010/velo/oetztaler/LANDGB.HTM

 

[HJ]

Good to hear that you enjoyed your self and managed to dodge all of the cows...

Looks like you had a great ride too.

 

[Telemark]

Congratulations! Looks like you reasonable weather too, there is snow on the high mountain cols now apparently...

Are you going to do a report with pictures for us?



T

 

[heliphil]

there was some snow sat night but it went by mid morning !!!!!

I laughed at all the warnings of cows !!!! but there were loads of them, and they like to stand in the middle of the road !!! going past them slowly uphill is ok but downhill !!!!!!!!