TRIBERG - With a bit of delay the results of the GP Schwarzwald race in Triberg have been published. Winner of the 69km long A-race was Daniel Preiss from Ludwigsburg in a time of 2:00:35. He outsprinted Lipowitz, Leischner and Fischer on the final climb to the line. Marc Leischner of Team Strassacker had also finished second in Friday's time trial behind Marco Utz.
Annika Grüber was too strong on this hilly circuit for Elin Amundsen. She had an advantage of 9 minutes.
What was odd was the time limit in Saturday's race. It was exceptionally tight, to the extent of hardly being fair. After all, quite a few participants travelled to Triberg only to do the Saturday race. Not more than 101 riders have been ranked on the 3-lap or the 69km race. All the rest was requested to halt after 2 laps. ECB Cyclosports rider Morten Hansen is not a mountain goat, but he is a strong all-round rider who always finishes within the first half if not the first third of the pack. In Triberg he was close to being asked to stop after 2 laps (he finished 91st)!
Probably the police no longer had any patience to keep the roads as traffic free as possible.
Anyhow, Team UGS's Torsten Roell, Frankfurt, finished 19th, four places and seven seconds ahead of myself (2:08:12 vs 2:08:19). Torsten got dropped from the first chase group at the end, and we in the second chase group of eight riders just managed to catch him. Cyril Monnet found the climb on the Geutsche too steep for his liking and then opted to stay with Elin.
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102 finishers of 160 starters show that the time limit was definitely too strict! Anyway, it was interesting to do a race on a circuit. Nice for the spectators. I wish more races in the T-Mobile Tour were like that.
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