Incredible, just absolutely incredible… I’m honestly at a loss for words. I’m deeply impressed by this thing. I had high expectations for the bike, and they were blown out of the water. This bike is at least two categories above my previous one, a Kuota Kuenn-K. Tomorrow will be the first longer and faster session.
Today I finally kicked off the new season — later than usual compared to previous years. Bad weather had taken care of cancelling every planned race up to this point. Still, I was feeling pretty confident going in. Training had been going really well, and with a lot of base miles in the legs but no targeted race prep, this half marathon was going to be the first serious fitness check. I only knew part of the course from the Heidelbergman triathlon — in hindsight that turned out to be a slight disadvantage, because the course is genuinely brutal. ...