This was the first Blauenkönig, a new event in the Schauinslandkönig hill climb series. The other events look to be fun events, with categories for inline skates, tandems, bike trailers etc. Today had one tandem, but mostly serious hill climbers for this steep ascent.
Very impressed with this event. I thought it would be a small scale local club hill climb with some guys with stop watches, but instead this turned out to be a very professional and well attended race. Closed roads from Badenweiler to Hochblauen was unexpected, this of course meant no customers for the restaurant at the top so they must have paid them off for the day! Even the timing chips were the most advanced I've seen, flat as sellotape and fixed to the back of the number plates.
We even had a starting ramp with 2 guys holding the bike, one guy counting down "zwei, eins, null" and announcing all the riders as we set off. Once off the start ramp, its immediately up the steepest part of the hill, and this climb is steep all the way to the junction to Hochblauen. The final 3km are still steep, but I couldn't move up another gear before 2km to go.
9 km, ca. 750 Höhenmeter tells the story of the climb. I made it up in 34min 49s, 27th position out of 130.
Nice day out, and we continued the day with a ride to Neuenweg, Tegernau, Endenberg.
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