September 27th, 2009 | Posted by: Dirk | Filed in Travel
After spending three long weeks on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, I got my stuff packed up and flew all the way across to Vegas to enjoy some interesting meetings with new potential sponsors. My travel was more than crazy—to give you some inside view on the trip of torture: we flew from Fuerteventura, Spain to Stuttgart, Germany where we repacked and got some rest at my Dad’s place before getting ready for the long US trip. After a very short 4hr sleep we drove 2h to Frankfurt and from there the party kind of started: FRA-PHI-LAS (2 days packed of meetings, a slight bit of training, accompanied by the worst jetlag possible). Starting at 4am again we headed from LAS via PHX to Kona. Excitement was on the rise when I saw the nice little islands below through my tiny window from the plane, but the past days already took their toll….
September 19th, 2009 | Posted by: Dirk | Filed in Gear
I recently spent some time in Hessen with Biomechanic Marcus Blenke, perfecting my bike fit for Hawaii.
Here is a quick clip to show you guys what my afternoon entailed. Lots of running around for Marcus, and lots of pedaling for me. My position is now perfect for a really fast bike split in Hawaii in a couple of weeks.
What a great time! After Prague, I took some fun time off to explore Barcelona-which was awesome, impressive but also a bit stressful like most big cities.
After 6 easy days, I went back to another training camp to do some more necessary work. Location: the hot and dry south of France. The purpose of the camp was to get used to the heat and the sweltering hot conditions. Read More…
Wow- what a day! Ok- let’s start from the beginning.
Leaving Font Romeu was a batlle with all our belongings and Barrett plus bike in and around my car.
I was so happy once we arrived in Barcelona with the bike still on top- the curvy roads took a lot out of us- since we had to make up some time on the way to the airport.
The flight was good, but the travel took a long time, so we had a 12hr door2door trip until we got to our nice hotel in Prague- Read More…
