On the weekend of January 10th and 11.01.2015th, 2015, we, the Merkur Cycling Team, had our first team meeting of the XNUMX season in Leipzig.
We made our way to ROTHAÍ Sports on Saturday morning from all corners of Germany. The journey was long and windy, but everyone made it on time.
There were beautiful and painful hours ahead of us. We all ran performance diagnostics, which was very sweaty.
But after the torture came the nice part of the day. The material issue. For a long time we had been looking forward to receiving our new bike. Our 2015 bike is again from the Fuji brand, this year's model will be the Altamira. Nice and easy ;-). All bikes were adjusted individually for each driver by André Schulze, so that we have the optimal seating position.
There were also new helmets and glasses from the UVEX brand. Color-coordinated this year, the helmet is black and the goggles are white.
On top of that we got our last late Christmas present: the new team clothing from LAWI. Here, too, we found everything suitable and perfectly tailored to us. Looks very good and now we also have helmet caps in the MERKUR design and a mini jersey that we will decorate our cars with.
With tired but happy faces, we drove to the hotel, which this year was in downtown Leipzig, to relax a bit. Now it came to an important part of a team meeting: Discussion for 2015 and repeated evaluation of the past year. There we discussed the tactics and goals for 2015. What exactly, of course, will not be revealed here!
A short time later, however, the next item on the program was already on the agenda. But nobody objected here. We finally went to the "Fela" to eat. We had a lot of fun with a nice get-together, so that afterwards we went into town to celebrate.
Nevertheless, we met on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. sharp in front of the ROTHAÍ Sports shop in the southern suburbs of Leipzig to test our new bikes on the first joint ride of the year. Luckily the weather was sunny, dry but cold. Our up-and-coming film talent Jakob Rößger shot the last pictures and we are all excited about the shots.
We had a lot of fun testing the material. Conclusion: everything is great and fits perfectly!
One can only say that the Merkur Cycling Team is highly motivated and is looking forward to the 2015 races.
The next thing is the training camp in Mallorca in March, where it's time to get the finishing touches and spend many hours on the bike when the weather is nice.
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