Race Report · Ultracycling / Bikepacking · 2022 BikingMan Portugal The comeback to racing, eight months on — three days across the Algarve and Alentejo · May 2–4, 2022 After a start to the year that was hard to digest, and still finishing off the recovery, this was my first race in eight months. Alert, and full of respect for
Race Report · Ultracycling · 2021 Race Across Germany 800 km nonstop, Aachen to Görlitz — qualifying for RAAM · September 10, 2021 Early that year I had drawn up a short list of ultra-distance races, and when the Race Around Denmark was canceled I left a query with the organizer — Dieter Göpfert — about the Race Across Germany.
After putting my goggles back on, mostly filled with water, I noticed that the contact lens of my left eye twisted and floating, and at that moment the alarm rang and adrenaline took over. After a few seconds to fix the goggles and conform to the idea that the visibility was going to be minimal and single-eyed for the rest of the race, I got my hands back in the water.
When I received an email notification on my cell phone, I got up suddenly, left the restaurant where I dined, and went into the cold November air to assimilate what had just happened. My Norseman ID had been one of 250 drawn out of 4800 applications to Norseman!!
