所要時間の1h27mは昨年のツール・ド・草津公式記録を参考にすると、60代完走者71人中63位あたりでのゴールになるようだ。時速8.4km/hは自分としては十分満足できる。
Early morning, 8th of May, I
left my room for a hill-climb running to Mt. Shirane as far as I could make. Because
of the sudden weather change with rain and thunders half day before, the wet
road was a part of my worry. There was little traffic before 8 in the morning
comfortably, and the ropeway station that I had challenged last time was fairly
easy to reach, but the load actually accumulated going beyond. I passed points
with magnificent views, but I was too busy with the pedals to pay attention on
the landscape. As the altitude escalated, it became too cold to continue, and I
had to pause once to put on my windbreaker, and then later once again to have
nutrition gel drink. A non-stop hill-climb is not really my goal. I kept
pedaling exhaustedly in the end.
It took me 1 hour 27 minutes to reach
the summit that virtually ranks me 63rd of total 71 participants of the
age group of 60’s in the last year’s Tour de Kusatsu hill climb event. Being less serious rider, I felt
happy with the average speed of 8.4km/h.
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