The team training camp in the Dolomites is slowly coming to an end and things are getting serious - with the Supergiro Dolomiti In Lienz, the first big highlight of the season is on the Kirchmair Cycling Team's racing calendar. All team riders are perfectly prepared and have enjoyed the great training conditions at the Hotel Molodia del Bosco in Alta Badia over the past few days. The team filmed wonderful tours every day, which, in addition to the fantastic panoramas and landscapes, also included important inputs, especially on the downhill technique.
At every opportunity, the smack runs in the team, but slowly you can already notice the emerging nervousness that some people rightly start to build up before the supergiro. After all, an incredible 232 kilometers and a good 5300 meters in altitude are on the program on Sunday, an absolute endurance test so early in the season. The cracks in the team are of course excited about the race, for everyone it is the first real hit on the racing calendar and a position determination is long overdue. After all, at the Supergiro everything is at the start, which has rank and name in the scene!
For the many more leisurely team riders, who also traveled a bit more leisurely in the Dolomites and of course enjoyed a coffee or two along the way, the classic Dolomite bike tour offers the perfect end to the training camp. They have to manage just over 100 kilometers and 1800 meters in altitude and I am particularly looking forward to catching up with my team riders from behind in the Lesachtal and hopefully placing at the front of the race. Then my boys and girls will surely scream their hearts out to hopefully see me at the top at the finish.
It is precisely this fact that makes the Supergyro or the Dolomite tour so special for me. Thanks to the precisely thought-out starting times, the cracks of the scene catch up with the pleasure cyclists of the Dolomites cycle tour through the Lesachtal valley and this creates the unique opportunity to experience the strongest marathon cyclists up close in the race. So the whole team is already looking forward to the race, they are already busy working on the material, the tactics and the catering strategy.
If you don't want to miss the bike event in Lienz, you can still register, there are still tickets for both routes, which are also available on site. So don't hesitate and register right away, because this year the limit of 1000 starters at the Supergiro will definitely be broken and thus a bike festival of superlatives, because with the Dolomiten Radrundfahrt over 2500 cyclists will be on the road in the Lienz Dolomites and make the capital Lienz once more to the stronghold of cycling in Austria.
So, to an exciting race!
With kind regards from the Dolomites,
Your Stefan