I did it!!!

I did it!!!

I've got to the end of the race!!!

Got there in one piece!!

Got there without technical or physical problems!!

And got there before the minimum time!!!


The day started rainy! As expected since this is Göttingen!! Racing in the rain is not the best, specially for road bikes ... before I left to the start point the rain stopped, but the floor was wet basically the whole race, what makes you take a lot of care when going down.

1438 participants, it's hard to imagine that number of people together hehehehehehe

The "professional" people went in the front and the "normal" people in the back. There were no pelotons in that part of the race, just an eventual wind shilding. The climbs were harder than last week even though they were the same :-)

After the second climb I decided to go as fast as possible, there was no good reason to save energy anymore. Got to the finish line (83.7 km) in 3:33 minutes and at my limit!! Couldn't go a km further! hehehehehehe

I got impressed with two things in this race. The first one was the number of people in city bikes, just having fun, and they can be fast (Germans start cycling before they start waking, therefore they have very strong legs for cycling). The second one was the support of the people. In every small town, in every climb there were people to clap, incentivize, to really put you up, even though the first ones had passed there more than an hour before!! Very nice!

I had a great time!!!

After I arrived there were some friends waiting, pictures and a lot fun, we had the arrival of the last stage of the Tour of Lower Saxony and I could see Alessandro Petacchi cross the line in first, just in front of me!!! He's a machine!!! :-)