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Zitat von glaurung

Hat sich dieser "Trend" zur ungeahndeten Pulkbildung eigentlich in den letzten Jahren schon ansatzweise angedeutet, oder kam dieses Gelutsche heuer schlagartig auf, d.h. direkt nach der Übernahme durch die Chinesen?

Nope, gab es früher schon:


Auszug aus meinem Rennbericht aus 2007:
"That is until mile 32 when I hear a strange humming sound from behind. When the first rider passes me I realize this is a giant group of about 40-50 athletes riding in a peloton much like the Tour de France. When I shout at one of the guys asking what the hell they are doing there he just tells me to mind my own business and settle in with the group! Nope! I’ll surely not do that! I rather pull over to the shoulder, luckily ist 3y whide here ant let them pass. After they pass I realize that I just can’t let them go and a few fuses break in my head when I decide to overtake these cheaters. For the next 20min I clearly put an effort into it that is way abou what one should put in. I later notice that I went at more than 170 bpm for that time. Not really smart but I could not help myself."


Auszug aus meinem Rennbericht aus 2008:
Trotz der Tatsache, dass ich hier nicht permanent überholte wie in 2007, war das Rennen erstaunlich fair. So man denn fair fahren wollte. Denn wegen des schnell aufkommenden Windes gab es die ein, oder andere Gruppe, die jedoch von den Kampfrichtern, die wesentlich weniger gnädig agieren als in Deutschland, gut auseinander gepflückt wurden.


Auszug aus meinem Rennbericht aus 2011:
What really was a problem for me though was seeing the quite large groups going up the hill only a few minutes behind me. Yoda would say: “Legal that was not!”.



Auszug aus meinem Rennbericht aus 2013:
What annoyed me a great bit was the fact that even riding up to Hawi the whole race felt a little bit like a group ride. There were guys moving back and forth among one another and I had to try really hard not to get mixed up in all of this. Once or twice I tried to distance the guys but the effort I decided would have been too great. I did that once back in 2007 and payed bitterly on the run. And as the prime objective this year was to get an overall acceptable result I resisted the urge to put the pedal to the metal every time it arose. So I rode on the shoulder of the road quite often to avoid any appearance of me drafting.


Fazit: Wird aber von Jahr zu Jahr schlimmer. Denn je größer aber die Leistungsdichte, desto größer das Problem.