So after a great day of travelling with 4hr stop-over in Lisbon (watching the Spain’s beat the Germans) I finally arrived at Porto last night at 23.30! The DK team mates had been on sightseeing & left a van for me, so I could drive up to Montalegre & at 02.00 Thursday morning I crashed in at a nice bed the nice small “Casa Ze Maria”, which will be our base until tmrw(Friday).
Today the guys had planned MTBO INTERVALS on a map 30min down the road in Boticas! And to make sure I felt real welcome we waited with jumping in the saddle until 13.00….the coolest time of day!!!!!!!
It was great training – 3 x 15min full power – but it’s just as hard, hilly & horrible hot as expected! This championships gonna be F*ing tough!! The tracks here at full of stones and “rolling” gravel & it seems it’s been raining heavily not too long ago, cause there’s a lot of “cracks” in the surface making it very technical to go down(and up)!
Felt completely lost on first round, heat rate jumping to 90% at first hill, the sun just toasting me from up there, but the last two was better & rolling home on the tarmac I felt quite good.
Now, it’s time for a nap before dinner, celebrated the good training with a bread roll with….NUTELLA!;-)
Maps & pictures will come later…the wifi here is not so strong (proudly sponsored by the neighbor!)
*MM*
PS: Just started raining…maybe they’ll really meet my request for Viking temperatures for next week!!!
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