Black Forest Ultra Bike Marathon

Cycling in Europe, and in particular southern Germany, is sport that many people take seriously. Every year in the Black Forest there is a mountain bike race with about 4,500 participants. Teri and I entered the race this year to take in the spectacle. We only raced the short course (43Km) but many people were doing the middle and long distances (77km and 116km). For our race all the competitors took a train from near Freiburg out into the Black Forest to a town called Hinterzarten. From there the competitors started in waves and raced back to the Freiburg area. Teri's bike got a little damaged during transport so she only had a few gears to work with during the race, but other than that it was great time. Oh, by the way we won our race.......just kidding...would have if we were faster than the 2500 people in front of us.

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