After a pretty long illness, it was time to start with »real« training. And it is about time to start blogging on my website again. Today, something more about my winter training period and I promise I will try to report about what's going on every week, if possible (at least) on Mondays?
After I've finished RAAM and took some time off, by the end of July my racing feeling was back. My legs were strong and I began thinking about new challenges. There were a few options for ultra racing in August, but the closest to my heart were the roads including the Alpine passes of Switzerland. One of the things that motivated me to doing the Tortour was the presence of two »old« rivals, RAAM winner, Danny Wyss and Thomas Ratschob 2nd placed rider from RAS 2009. There were (as always) budgetary issues to resolve, but I was lucky enough to find a sponsor who would cover my expenses of racing in inaugural TORTOUR DE SUISSE 2009.
In the middle of the night, after seven hour drive, we came to our first destination - the home of family Janežič, slovenian family living in Switzerland. It was late at night but Evgen, Ivanka, Denis and Klara welcomed us with open arms.
After the 3rd place at this year's RAAM, Marko's season will finish with the participation in the inaugural Race around Switzerland otherwise known as the Tortour de Suisse. The race is 1.071km long and has 15.000m of elevation gain, going over some verywell known Alpine passes like Fluelapass, Julierpass, Oberalpass, St. Gotthardpass, Nufenenpass.
