Wed, January 27th, 2010
Singletrack
In second place Klaus Vesterlund….. Klaus…? (picture Daniel Rahbeak)
Hi there
Sunday the 24th of January I headed for Varde’s Wintercup final in Blåbjerg. Storming and freezing temperatures of -7 degrees. The destination must be on every Danish mountain bikers mind as the sandy and very nice track hosts the Danish nationals this summer. This Sunday we didn’t see much of the track as it was covered in 30 cm of snow.
The race followed the “White track” (o: in Blåbjerg. It’s a popular place to go so the track was acceptable to ride. The single tracks got a 30-40 cm wide firm decent track in the snow where you could ride. A singletrack in the singletrack. If you left the track this would happen: Your bike went in one direction and your body in another. It was extremely difficult to ride. If you wanted to overtake a rider, you had to do a Carl Lewis sprint in 30cm of powder snow beside your opponent in cyclocross style or you could wait for the 2 km of wide road on each 12 km lap. Not shit. It was just impossible. Of the 3 laps to go the first was the easiest. After that the “singletrack²” was totally messed up by riders who had left the track. That surprised me and short into the second lap I crashed hard. Chain of, awry handlebar, gloves of, multitool. DAMN! I was pursuing local hero Christian Sloth and was 30 sec down. The crash didn’t change the fact that CS was by far the strongest and best bike handler this Sunday. He put 4 minutes into me on the 2 last laps. Nice going CS!
What’s left for me here is to apologize to organizers for not showing up at the award ceremony. Sorry. I was in a pretty bad condition due to the crash.
/Klaus Vesterlund
