Congratulation to Bernie on completing the Ötztaler Radmarathon glad to hear that you enjoyed the day. I was impressed by your time of 11:30 for an event which covers 238km with 5500m of climbing, good to hear that you managed Timmelsjoch (max. 14 %; 1,759 m altitude gain; 28.7 Km) without any “unscheduled stops”. I estimate your average speed to have been 20.7 Km/h (12.8mph), which puts my average speed of 22.8 Km/h (14.2 mph) over 99 Km (which I thought was good) the same day into perspective. This just leaves me with one question, did you see any cows in the Kühtai tunnel?
Project Honey Pot
Monday, 14th, September 2009 at 22:14
Thank you 🙂 Actually it were “only” 229 km and 5300 m of climbing. A couple of years ago, the course was slightly different, and they keep communicating the numbers from that time. This brings the average down to 19.9 km/h. But the actual ride time was just about 11 hours (30 minutes for getting food, filling up the bottles, taking off/putting on clothes etc.), which means a net average of about 20.8.
Oh, and no cows in the tunnel, fortunately.