**Year 2024** is almost over and I am trying to look back a little bit. …
Year 2024 is almost over and I am trying to look back a little bit. Looking at overall miles, and workout time ... OK numbers are down quite a bit but thats on purpose since quality comes over quantity. I was planning for about 18000 miles (28968 km) for 2024. OK .. it turned out to be total of 25500 miles (41000 km) overall cycling but ... over 7000 miles (11300 km) has been racing. So my training was limited to 18k miles (about 29k km) only. Nevertheless ... in the short time of cycling (since 2020) and even much shorter time of bicycle racing (since 2021 a few short races and since 2023 ultra-distance racing) it looks like a cool 2024 to me. I had some results which to me are unexpected and very motivating. My key results 2024 have been: - Winning Men's over all age groups at Texas Longhorn500 and seeing a new age record for 60-69 - a cool 2nd place at Florida500 over all age groups - Winning age group 12 hours at Bid-Atlantic and 4th overall (incl recumbent bicycles) - winning overall agenda and age groups and new track record at 48 hour race in North Carolina (Psycho48) However my biggest accomplishments of the year are the completion of RAAM solo ... ok only 11th overall and 2nd at age group but crossing finish line in time was the most important thing to me. And at Thanksgiving weekend placing a new World Record for 60-69 non-drafting and most important self-supported 7 day time trial with 1858 miles (2990 km). In addition I had a few cool results at some other races such as the Gran-Fondo race series and lots of fun in some non race related rides with different distances. I hope to take some of the momentum into 2025 while I will try a bit different approach for the main races that I scheduled. Key to me is that job comes first and it's not easy having a regular job and doing all the training and racing in addition. It's lots of compromises on the possible trading schedule but job has priority. Thats why I am happy I was able to get a few cool results in for the year and as long as health plays along ok I am planning to see how well I compete within my age group and more important across all age groups. If time and budget allows I would be most happy to attend the one or other one race out of country. I hope that might be possible but I have to keep a close eye on budget for such travel and race cost. Some pictures are from the races and training as well as a few screen prints from Strava. Special thanks to my crew chief Heidi Maldonado who never let me down and was a great motivation and support factor in training and racing as well as my coach Giovanni Prosperi who believes in me and helped me getting all those cool results even at age 60 🙂 #hammernutrition #infinitybikeseat -> #ingolf676
