Revelofication: 12.August 2020 Alpenride 2/2: Huettenzauber - Although returning with more teeth in the bag, it wouldn’t help. For the record, this day was the first time ever that a mountain broke my legs.

Thursday, 13 August 2020

12.August 2020 Alpenride 2/2: Huettenzauber - Although returning with more teeth in the bag, it wouldn’t help. For the record, this day was the first time ever that a mountain broke my legs.

Now completing the ride I wanted to do on 1.June, or the second half, so to say. 120km, 3200hm

A bit mad maybe to do a lot of climbing in this heat, but the first day of my holidays had to be used in style. Starting at Hammer again but heading north via Schliersee to hit Grindelalm first, followed by a really nice route to Tegernsee, Wallberg East ascent up two branches, Valepp, Schönfeldhütte, Sudelfeld and finally Soinhütte, the ascent of my terrible fate as a cyclist…. All of that on 39x30, a nightmare at times.

Climb up to Grindelalm

Climb up Wallberg East side

Climbing up to Soin Alm

Extremely challenging sections up Soin Alm

The heat, the gradient, the lack of gears,
39/32 again was not enough

Eventually, I went pop, partially due to heat exhaustion,
partially running literally out of power on the
the steepest slope of the day, after already more than 4 hours
on the bike and 3100 meters of climbing in my legs
had to stop, sit down for 15mins, before I was able to continue the climb.
It was just another 500m to the end.