{"id":4876,"date":"2012-06-12T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:48:06","slug":"end-of-trans-germany-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=4876","title":{"rendered":"End of Trans Germany 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last day we headed from Seefeld in Austria back to Germany and ended up in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Four very hard but most of all very fun days was over.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Day 1 &#8211; Sonthofen &#8211; Pfronten 73,1 km 2758m ascent, 2639 descent. #238 of 308 &#8211; 5:01:48. One puncture, one technical stop in addition. Cramps the last five kilometers. So much uphill and very steep downhill&#8230;worst day ever.<\/li>\n<li>Day 2 &#8211; Pfronten &#8211; Lermoos (Austria). 78,39 km 2295 ascent, 2170 descent. #212 of 300 &#8211; 4:37:06. Overall (not really sure due to a crappy result list this day). A very nice day on the bike, fun to ride all the time!<\/li>\n<li>Day 3 &#8211; Lermoos &#8211; Seefeld (Austria). 58,96 km 1864 ascent, 1667 descent. #204 of 295 &#8211; 3:19:06 &#8211; Overall 218. Started hard, tried to follow Ole Andreas, had to let him go in the second ascent, but just before the top it started to get fun again, and I was able to pedal pretty hard the rest of the race. Almost died and went to heaven when I missed a turn and in about 40 km\/h biked straight out into the woods. Luckily I did not fall of the bike, neither did I hit any trees, missed a minute or two, but no injuries which was most important.<\/li>\n<li>Day 4 &#8211; Seefeld &#8211; Garmish-Partenkirchen. 78,05 km, 1731 ascent, 2231 descent. #199 (YES!!) of 288. 3:54:08. Got a good start, had not felt any better, from the second ascent I was able to push hard until the rain came, then I lost much of the motivation, was really happy when I started on the last ascent &#8211; finally warm again&#8230;but hell, it was sooo long and sooo steep. Finally we started the descent to the finish line, and after four days with only one puncture and a minor techical issue fixed in no time both me and the bike had finished Trans Germany 2012. Overall 207 of 287, down from 308 finishers the first day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Back in Sonthofen preparing the bags before heading home in the car. Lars pretty happy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/06\/endoftg1_lars.jpg?mtime=1339529108\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/06\/endoftg1_lars.jpg?mtime=1339529108\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The rear disk of Lars&#8217; bike. It is not rust you see, but burns after the intense heat when breaking in the steep downhills, mostly on day one and three.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/06\/endoftg2_disk.jpg?mtime=1339529109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/06\/endoftg2_disk.jpg?mtime=1339529109\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Learned a lot, most important lesson &#8211; for some strange reason the body just seems to adopt to the race, making it easier to go every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last day we headed from Seefeld in Austria back to Germany and ended up in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Four very hard but most of all very fun days was over. Day 1 &#8211; Sonthofen &#8211; Pfronten 73,1 km 2758m ascent, 2639 descent. #238 of 308 &#8211; 5:01:48. One puncture, one technical stop in addition. Cramps the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12738,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/12738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}