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update: datasport has put the results of the grand-raid online. click here to see how renzo and me finished (look for CTan in the lower part of the page). 10 hours and 12 minutes and a mean velocity of 7.5 km/h, how pathetic :-)

tomorrow renzo and me have a new project with his tandem: we’re gonna ride the grand raid christalp (76km mostly up and down :-). i’ll keep you updated on how we manage to compete with the other ten teams. and now i think i’ll just go to bed, cause we got to catch an early train tomorrow morning. maybe i can tell you something about the (surprisingly good) movie i just saw later on. for now i just wish you a good night.

rachel from the velokurier bern has won the european messenger championships in poland. yesterday she returned and then was superbusy instantly, because she had to give quite some interviews. today she was in some newspapers:

• 20Minuten , complete with link to the suicmc04
• Bund
• BZ and on friday there will be coming a telebarn -crew to make an interview with her, so she’ll be busy all week long.

congratulations rachel!

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if you want to help us at the SUICMC04 then you might look at the letter pia made and send us an email to the mentioned email-address.

(this is also here for archival purposes, because if you read that here you’ve probably already gotten the letter by mail)

easy come: nina and i are going on holidays, i paid for our tickets and yesterday evening she paid me back her half (1100$). at least once i swam in money!

easy go: i just got this fine (around 150$) for crossing three red lights with the bike. it was quite funny in the end, because the police-officer looked really puzzled, when i answered “no” to his question (he asked: “will that be a lesson for you?”)

since you’ve been reading about the global gutz last saturday, i thought it’s time to explain a bit. every year on the 17th july there’s a messenger-race which takes part all around the world. the rules of that race are that there are 5 checkpoints (not including start and finish) evenly distributed on a route of 21km length. the route has to be as flat as possible (quite hard here in bern) so that the results over the whole world can be compared. so, last saturday the global gutz also took part here in bern. and in the end it turned out that bene and me (on top left) were the fastest of all messengers1 that took part here in bern (there were also some messengers from the velokurier biel coming over). after some time it turned out that we were not only the fastest in bern, but the fastest in switzerland! (shouts to anja (on the right) for preparing a fast course!) since Rachel and Pia came in just two minutes later than we both did, they are the fastest global-gutz-women in switzerland. so we had to fight over the train-ticket to the ECMC in Warshaw (fahrradkurier.ch sponsored a ticket). In the end it turned out that Bene and Rachel are gonna go to Warshaw with the sponsored tickets, because they won in Scissors, Paper, Stone . Nono, we didn’t need to fight, I’m invited to a wedding-eve-weekend of a very close friend and Pia is on holidays. (Good for Bene, because i’m unbeatable at SPS !) that’s the explanation why i didn’t stay on the gurten to see nena and iam and lunik. this was probably much more fun anyways!

a selection of my pictures from the gurtenfestival are now online in the pictures-section.

because of posts like these the powerbook blog is gonna stay on my rss-feed :-) i’ve seen it before (when i tested everything in the system preferences years ago) but it’s a nice trick nonetheless!

[via powerbook blog ]