Dear friends and followers,
last year on the Transcontinental Race I made such great experiences, on the road, off the road, and with/through you online. So I couldn’t resist doing another bike race across Europe this year:
The 3 Peaks Bike Race – Vienna to Barcelona
starting coming Saturday (20.7.19)
16:00h in Vienna
(some facts/figures below!)
- GPS live tracking of all riders’ on their individual routes across Europe on
- 3pbr-2019.legendstracking.com
I’m cap 36 (again)
- 3pbr-2019.legendstracking.com
- You can follow me…
- #TPBR2019cap36 is my personal hashtag all over social media
- Instagram: MalteCyclingtourist (occasional photos/stories)
- Twitter: @cyclingtourist_ (Malte Cyclingtourist) (synced to Instagram)
- Facebook page: Malte Cyclingtourist (synced to Instagram)
- Strava: Malte Cyclingtourist – I’ll probably upload my rides each day.
- General discussion and post about the race in the 3PBR Facebook group and tagged as #TPBR2019
I’m very excited to participate… to meet the riders and roam our continent. A word of expectations management though:
This year I started my cycling season very late and “moderately”. And on one of the first couple of rides I had a (self-caused) crash in which I broke my right pinky. Curing it meant 7 weeks off the bike, which just ended last week = 2 weeks before the race start. So: Of course I have some plans as to what I want to achieve, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I couldn’t put out all the daily kms I wished. But who knows… another element of surprise! As if there weren’t already enough of those in this kind of cycle touring/racing, haha.
I’m very much looking forward to hearing from you while I’m on the road! It is incredibly encouraging!
Happy dot-watching!
Some facts and figures about TPBR:
- Start: Sat. 20th of July, 16:00h
- Vienna to Barcelona
- via 3 peaks (checkpoints):
- Passo Dello Stelvio (IT)
- Colle delle Finestre (IT)
- Arcalis Ordina (Andorra, Pyrennees)
- no fixed route (each rider/racer has to plan their own)
- self-supported (no support cars, no outside assistance)
- non-stop (clock keeps ticking day and night)
- ca. 2000km and >20000m accumulated elevation gain
- ca. 100 participants (mostly solo, some pairs)
- More information (incl. all riders): www.adventurebikeracing.com/threepeaksbikerace
CYCLING TOURIST 