Hochreichart - Hirschkarlgrat - Geierhaupt

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TCRNo11 - CP2 to CP3

TCRNo11 - CP1 to CP2

I started to ride at 10 am on Friday 12 May in Nickelsdorf, the easternmost city in Austria and my goal was to reach Dornbirn (in Austria's Western part) in about 28 hours. There was an outdoor festival there, and this should be my finish.
The ride was very tough, it was raining all the time, it was windy and cold. Only 3 times for about 30 minutes it stopped to rain and the road was dry for a very short time, before rain began again.
I was following the unsupported rules with no outside support, only exception was some riders who accompanied me for a few kilometres and a media team which was following me for a few minutes and then left me again. Nutrition, mechanics, shopping, navigation was all unsupported.
The biggest difficulties were frozen fingers and not enough warm and dry clothes. In Leoben I had to stop and buy another pair of gloves. How stupid I was to leave my 20 pairs of Specialized gloves at home... :-)
In the night I had to change from plan A to plan B and take another route through valleys instead of mountains, since it was snowing up there on Ramsau and Dientner Sattel. Riding without sleep was not easy, because I could not use my phone to save energy (no music), because recharging the phone was not possible because the USB got water into it. 
Nonetheless the ongoing rain, I had to ride Hahntennjoch and Hochtannberg, since the alternative route over Arlberg is forbidden for cyclists, because the main traffic is detoured over Arlberg for a few months. The snow up there on 1800m altitude was not very nice...

All in all it was a great experience: There were so many people cheering and following online, we had TV coverage and I think it was a motivating ride for all the cyclists who were following, and a good promotion for the sport in general. Thanks for all your support, I am so grateful and happy, that I finished the ride. The welcome in Dornbirn was absolutely amazing!

some more facts (which are cut down by Strava)
Total time was 27h:26min (1h:25min not moving)
NP was 218 W

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TCRNo11 - CP2 to CP3

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