in the secret woods of regau i’ve shot the team-photos for the team muskelkater – here’s a quick selection of the better ones..

back in mid august i’ve been down at the far south-east end of nowhere austria, to cover a small but legendary 4X-race for the organizer and a bikeboard report.

as legendary as the race, is the fact that it always rains at this event, heavily – as in floodlike. so it was predicted for this year either, but against all forecasts, after 5 minutes of dripping around noon the day turned to the complete opposite.. still we got our dose of mud after dark, when the after-race party with the fabulous binder-krieglstein on stage took place.

.. more or less business as usual, just with some ‘minor’ differences.. a mtb-marathon with rather little (just close to 300) participants, 500kms to reach it, and best of all – getting to know about it just some hours before having to depart..

so i went to sauris/ita alone, arriving there at 2 in the morning, getting up at 6 again, without knowing the track at all, trying to get a plan, looking for useable spots, and being readily set up there after the start at 9 .. luckily the weather was quite the opposite of what was to expect in advance.

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the sequel of a legend.. after skipping one year due to organizational troubles a legendary 24h-roadbike-race, the “kraftwerktrophy” was reborn, relocated away from the name-giving powerplant of theiss to donnerskirchen.. a small, still great race, with an even greater spirit, let’s hope there’ll be some more participants the next time..

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even if there’s usually no more snow in the valleys, at the end of winter some crazy sportsmen find their way to the dachstein, an austrian peak of ~3000m surrounded by a glacier to take part at the “Dachstein Extreme”, a ski mountaineering race..

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