Tuesday, September 09, 2008

FICC riders in good form

Over the past two weekends riders of the Frankfurt International Cycling Club have shown good form in events in and out of Germany. A brief overview:

Gideon Fourie continued his UCI Golden Bike Tour with the Gruyere Cycling Tour - previously known as la Pascal Richard - last weekend and was impressed by the scenery on the tour. The 120km ride contained some very steep climbs, as can also be see on this webpage. Fabian Cancellara gave acte de presence as well!


Morten Hansen did it again: in shape at the right time for his main objective, the Vatenfall Cyclassics in Hamburg. Albeit ten minutes slower than last year, Morten completed the 155km race in less than 4 hours: 3h56'50" or an average speed of 38.98 km/h. That was good enough for rank 564 out of 2768 finishers. Morten was sitting in the first group for a long time until two spokes suddenly loosened and he had to get off the bike to tighten them again. The race was won by Berliner Michael Zippan in 3h43'50".

Two years after finishing third, Elin Amundsen returned to La Vosgienne in Thann, Eastern France, last Sunday to grab a solid victory. Amazingly, she needed almost exactly the same time for the 100km route across le Markstein and Vieil-Armand  as in 2006: 3h20'31", merely four seconds faster. It was enough for her second win in 15 days, though. The second woman was seven minutes behind her. 

After her victory on the 7okm at Rad am Ring, Elin travelled to Austria for the Deutschland Tour Mountain Challenge in the Zillertal. That race didn't work out at all for Elin, as she cracked totally on the final climb to finish 8th after missing out on food and water, and being overtaken by competitors she normally beats easily. Elin described the event as ' her worst race ever' . Good she bounced back at la Vosgienne, though!

Guus Van Domburg also returned to that French race, and he did manage a 36-minute improvement over the 100km distance. Guus crossed the finish line in 4:10:33. A worthy season's closer for him!









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