Cyclopaat, an alter ego with a twist
Did I hear a “Please give us more pictures”? Well, as always I’m eager to please, so here is the “Best Of” picture gallery of our Tour de Suisse 2019 – again, if you want the larger original(s), drop me a line.
And yes, (summit) selfies are at the bottom of the recap post for this trip too.
For those of you interested in the stats of my Tour de Suisse: this one is for you 😂
For everyone else, just scroll to a next post…
Last week, I realised I did not write a post stage report on the second week of my Tour de Suisse 2019.
Well, here it is…
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We moved our base camp from Silvaplana to Sedrun on Saturday – I had an intermediate stage planned, but decided to drop that and have a rest day instead.
Also during the second week, things didn’t go exactly as planned, plus the weather was really bad, most of the time.
I managed to cycle every pass I wanted, except the Nufenen, which was closed due to land slides.
I already knew beforehand that my road book was something I was most likely not going to stick to anyway, but I didn’t anticipate that a medical discomfort would be mostly responsible for that…
Today, we have moved to Sedrun, a small town on the Oberalp, between Andermatt and Disentis.
This means that the first week of my Tour de Suisse 2019 has come to an end.
Although I eventually cycled almost every pass I wanted, that didn’t go as planned.
I already knew beforehand that my road book was something I was most likely not going to stick to anyway, but I didn’t anticipate the actual reason why I had to make changes to my stages…
Tomorrow night, we’ll be heading for Switzerland for my own ‘Tour de Suisse 2019’.
After a stopover for the night near Basel, my tour officially begins on Saturday, with a prologue over the San Bernadino (2,065 m) and the Splügenpass (2,114 m).
As that stage is already 90 kilometers long to the summit of the Splügenpass, with 2,600 meters of elevation difference, I will probably have a good idea about where I stand.
In previous posts (part 1 / part 2) I have described the stages I have in mind, which will require every bit of my limited – climbing – capabilities under the best of circumstances.
However, although I’m in much better shape than I was some 4 months ago, I have still not fully recovered from the injuries I sustained in December last year…
