92^{432 km} - ONE hour

Last weekend we tried the hour-record again. This year we have no fortune. After a record-pace-start I tried to accellerate for lap 3 doing 96+km/h. The speedometer did not show me the expected speed. I went slower and slower even pushing harder and harder. I thought: It’s perhaps not my day. I had to stop and we saw ones more our front tyre flat…damn!

Today I was mountainbiking at home again, finally a sunny day in switzerland and…I get back happy!

So we added no kilometer to our record but nobody was able to become a serious competitor – we lost nothing.

So einiges hat beim Rekord-Weekend auf Dekra nicht zusammengepasst und deshalb wurden wir nicht mit einem weiteren Rekord verwöhnt. Trotzdem habe ich zwei Bestleistungen erzielt.

97,6km/h Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit für eine Runde auf dem Oval sowie

106km/h Topspeed in einem Zwischensprint.

Ein ausführlicher Bericht kannst du hier nachlesen.

Quite a lot has not come together well, to set another world record. But, I have achieved two best performances; 97.6 km/h average speed for one lap and 106km/h top speed in a sprint that I did spontaneously. You can read a detailed report here.

Foto: hptdelft.nl / Bas de Meijer

We had a good time on lake Garda and my training was very good. I trained hard but the goal was also to enjoy it. For this season I decided to have more fun while training. That’s why I rode a lot the new mountainbike and focused later on my recumbent. I feel stronger than last year and I hope we can do better on Dekra.

Now we have to prepare the bike. Working on it gives us the needed „competition-feeling“. We changed the smallest sprocket – I have only 3 gears in Eiviestretto – and hope to be able pushing this one too. Yesterday I get into the bike and when Stefan closed the topshell I felt like being on the track.

So, let’s go!