{"id":14250,"date":"2017-05-19T22:01:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/05\/altstadt-kriterium-feldkirchen\/"},"modified":"2017-11-05T23:10:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T22:10:12","slug":"altstadt-kriterium-feldkirchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2017\/05\/altstadt-kriterium-feldkirchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Altstadt Kriterium Feldkirchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because six days of racing wasn’t going to be enough… No that’s not it… Because I’m easily persuaded… Perhaps… Because a criterium sounded like it might be fun and I haven’t ridden one for ages… Possibly…<\/p>\n

Just because…<\/p>\n

Anyway, we are back in Kaernten for the Tour de Kaernten starting tomorrow. We are camping at our normal spot at the Ossiacher See. Yesterday we did a tiny bit of sport climbing near the Slovenian border and this morning we did a fun via ferrata route back in the same area.<\/p>\n

Around 8 pm I rode the Feldkirchen Altstadt criterium in… yes… the old town of Feldkirchen. It was suprisingly quite fun. I got lapped at the end of the 10th lap so didn’t finish but so did a bunch of people. The course consisted of 1 km laps and there were 15 of them. At least there would have been 15 of them had I rode faster. <\/p>\n

Still, it was quite nice flying through the old town. There was a descent from the start line, some corners, a flat bit, and then an ascent on cobble stones, a few more corners and the line again. Repeat x 15. Unless you get lapped in which case it’s game over. <\/p>\n

Now come the excuses. I wanted to film the race so was faffing with my go pro when the race started as the nasty thing wouldn’t switch. This put me in a bad place by half way through the first lap until I got the thing started. I didn’t really get back on to a wheel from the first guys. Funny though, my mouth went completely dry and my heart went from 110 to 195ish in no time.<\/p>\n

Another guy sat on my wheel for a while but when someone passed us he jumped on the other wheel and I rode alone until getting lapped. This didn’t really help my average speed which ended up at 35 km\/h. Not bad I suppose since I didn’t have a bunch but not really comparably to the first stage of the tour de vineyards in 2005 where I had an average speed of 42.1 km\/h after 60km, although with bunch support and no nasty corners where you had to brake hard. This criterium had one just before the cobblestones which required a bit of braking.<\/p>\n

Anyway, quite fun. Perhaps I should do some more.<\/p>\n

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Above: Apparently I was working hard. Must be one of the shortest races I’ve ever done…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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