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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Europe 2013

Just settling into European time again, day two into our 6 week race trip to Germany, Czech Republic and Italy for the first three World Cup rounds of the 2013 series.

Flight went well, good movies and decent food and managed a few hours of solid sleep. Being Silver member with Emirates allowed access to the Business Class lounge in Dubai which was pretty sweet with free food and plenty of space to relax.

Landed in Munich to meet up with the rest of the team who had arrived a few hours earlier and picked up our ride for the trip, a massive Mercedes Sprinter.

We’re spending the first two weeks in Sigmaringen Germany, building up to the first World Cup round of the year 20mins drive down the road in the town of Albstadt. Haven’t got up to a whole lot just yet with the Jetlag still having a pretty strong hold on us all. Just managed a couple of easy spins and a first look at the World Cup track. First impressions were pretty good, it wasn’t as steep as rumours had indicated but there is a lot of tough climbing. Some pretty cool descents, nothing overly technical but good fun and still tricky at times.

And the weather so far has been decent to, always nice when you can extend the NZ summer for a bit longer. Hopefully the rain forecasted for later this week doesn’t turn up.





2013 UCI Mountain Bike Calendar
 
 

 
 
World
 
 
Date
Event
Venue
Ctry
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18 - 19.5
 
 
Albstadt
GER
 
 
 
25 - 26.5
 
 
Nove Mesto na Morave
CZE
 
 
 
8 - 9.6
 
 
Fort William
GBR
 
 
 
15 - 16.6
 
 
Val Di Sole
ITA
 
 
 
28 - 29.6
 
 
Kirchberg
AUT
 
 
 
27 - 28.7
 
 
Vallnord
AND
 
 
 
10 - 11.8
 
 
Mont-Sainte-Anne
CAN
 
 
 
26.8 - 1.9
 
 
Pietermaritzburg
RSA
 
 
 
14 - 15.9
 
 
Hafjell
NOR
 
 
 
21.9
 
 
Leogang
AUT
 
 
 
21 - 22.9
 
 
Leogang
AUT
 
 
 

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