This was my fourth time that I did the Pfronten MtB Marathon and every year I like it more than the previous year.  The mountains and scenery in this part of the Alps are just unbelievable.  That is of course if you can see the mountains – which was difficult this time because the weather was [click to read more]

Our recent trip home to visit our family in Germany was framed by several important occasions and celebrations including Arnulf’s 80th birthday, our nephew Simon’s christening and of course Christmas and New Year’s Eve. We were happy and grateful that Vera from Hamburg and Rochelle from Pretoria were able to join us and thereby made [click to read more]

This is the second race in the Richie Mountain Bike Challenge that I entered.  Last year I did this race as well (see this post.)  I entered the 53km, 1900m of climbing race again and was determined to do better than last year.  I have done the course a number of times before the race [click to read more]

After Tour de Afrique (TdA), I was quite inspired to cycle more (sounds strange after all those thousands of km’s…)  It was very nice to be fit and it was so hard to get fit for TdA that it seemed like a waist not to capitalize on it further.  As luck would have it, there [click to read more]