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5th Section Livigno - Ponte di Legno

Addendum from yesterday did not work, the Internet connection in Passo del Tonale.

Also from our side: deep sympathy for the tragic death of the late actor und Transalp Challengers Heinrich Schmieder.

Heute morgen war es soweit – die Königsetappe stand an. Nach der gestrigen 4. Etappe waren wir komplett am Ende, die Beine komplett leer, der Rücken schmerzt, der Nacken brennt und die Hände haben Druckstellen (daher Vorbau nun mit 3cm Spacern).

Daher wählten wir die einzige Methode zur Besserung – Erholung. Nach Ankunft im Hotel direkt eine Stunde aufs Ohr gelegt und zum ersten Mal während dieser Transalp 8 Stunden geschlafen.Und es hat sogar geholfen. Aber der Reihe nach…
Wir waren um 8.10Uhr am Start (Einlaß zur den Startblöcken ist um 8Uhr) und waren course again behind places. Even before 8am formed in block C, a line in front of the inlet - really sick. The starting blocks are placed on the total placement, that is, in our case, Block C because we just miss the Top100. However, in Block C Mixed Start, Women's and master's teams, who need up to 2-3 hours per stage more like us. That is overtaking every day hundreds of bikers.
But today, this was doomed, right after the town of Livigno the track, led again, up a ski slope. This was again so very steep that the first 400 yards was pushed - then it is time 5 minutes in one spot until you can continue at all.

Nico himself early in the morning in great spirits

hangs video motocross machine fixed

If one adds to a narrow, single track or as narrow bridges will cost additional time. Then when the camera was still set on a motorcycle extremely steep ramp on the singletrack it is difficult to remain calm. So we had about 2 hours after us, "free "Can go and have arrived in our service area. This situation sucks, why is not easily distributed to the exact times of the overall standings, the blocks?
after hour 2, we were really gaining momentum, the pace was good, we found the right groups and were you as work your piece by piece. The runs were the crazy, violent "gravel slopes, which abverlangen a real anything. Extremely steep, extremely rocky with some boulder fields. Similarly, the steep single track, so that one is only complete on the brake. It turns out that we now reached another area: The trails were really rocky, rocky and paved the tubes the trail. Also, it caught us when we tried to go down well, with a yeasty debris part it happened: The rear wheel is not sufficiently balanced, Durschlag, air outside. Although it went on for 2 min 30 drivers are past us. The power density is really hard. Overall, the proposed stage very easily visited by intense runs, the hands were claimed so after 20km exit that one could hardly hold the handlebars and brakes. Many falls were the result, hopefully without permanent injury!
came after 65km then the real Hammer - Passo Mortirolo (known from the Giro d'Italia). The most difficult pass of the Alps see Road Bike . Not really a road, rather a paved forest road. 1500 meters at a stretch at a pitch that we have not seen before on a paved road. But amazingly, we were able to keep our pace and continued to fight until the final descent to Ponte di Legno. The last 10km before the finish was hard again - level and a small increase. But his legs were playing with - after 7:04 we arrived at number 94, the target.

the finish after 7:04, dirty, done but happy

mastered Our Trek Elite hardtail the stage with flying colors!

Now it's time for bike maintenance and reports to write off to bed ... the way we are in Passo del Tonale, right in the ski resort. In summer this is a ghost town. That means tomorrow morning before the start of first-pass 9km downhill to the start. As long as it only goes downhill - great!