.. 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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small “training-shoot” for me at the latest race of the vienna “wintercup”, a small series of mtb/cx-races taking place during – surprise :) – the wintermonths on various locations in or near our capital..

this time it’s been a bit different.. the track was a little shorter than usual, to be exact just around 850 meters, in return it got quite some turns (mostly 180s even), and well.. it’s been indoors.. it’s said to have been a world premiere – well quite likely there weren’t many people before having such a crazy idea.. 8) around 160 participants (as usual most in teams), were fighting for every meter on what proved to be a more selective track in the exhibition hall of freistadt (upper austria), than many have thought at first.. and it seemed that even the more sceptic starters found that it was fun and something different in the end..

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just a quick link to the two latest (and likely last for this year) events i did with/for sportograf.com.

first the mountainbike world cup finals in schladming which were – well – worldcup.. a little more of everything all around, spectators, racers, skills.. and some disciplines i haven’t shot before.. in the gallery u find some of my favourite shots plus some of fellow shooter matteo (all file’s names not starting with “MK”) who was with me covering this event.

and then there was munich, another 24 hour race, actually the biggest one in europe.. 1500 participants, resulting in over 44000 photos online for them.. interesting track in the munich “olympia-park”, was fun and of course straining again – but well – for the love of sport ;) .. as we’ve been a lot of photographers there many of my photos look quite similar as we all stayed at single spots for a longer time than usual, of course also having to take into account the huge number of bikers, many being part of teams and therefore not being on the track all the time..

sitting on a mountainbike for 24 hours must be fun. so why not doing it – bunch of friends of mine thought – and one of them registered a team of four for the euro-championships.. being their substitute i was lucky enough that all of the four were fit for the race, as i trained a little too little the last weeks before the race..

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