TRIBERG - The GP Schwarzwald in Triberg offered three different events this year. An individual time trial on the Geutsche (a steep climb of 4.6km with a max gradient of 19%), a race over 70km and 1600hm counting for the T-Mobile Cycling Tour on Saturday and the traditional Radmarathon/RTF on Sunday.
The area is brilliant for cycling, although you need to like climbing. Too bad that the timing in the Saturday race turned out to be problematic to say the least. Several riders got wrong times or were not even ranked in the result list at all. One of the main reasons seems to be that the timing company that was hired for the occasion is specialised in MTB events, where riders usually do not arrive at the finish in groups... Despite all the goodwill, the timing of events seems to become a recurring issue in Germany this season.
The result of Saturday's T-Mobile race is as yet unofficial and not even formally published on the event's website. It has been announced for Wednesday. What worries me is that they were asking for feedback from the participants themselves.
On Friday night, the fastest man was not honoured as the winner. He had been overlooked as well. Marco Utz from Offenburg beat a field of 75 riders with a time of 14:49, 19 seconds faster than Team Strassacker's Marc Leischner. Frankfurt-based Thorsten Roell, winner of the 2006 T-Mobile Tour, was 12th in 15:46. I managed a time under 16:00 as well: 14th in 15:56.
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