Tour-Trans-Austria Preview

Tour-Trans-Austria is a 7-day road stage race through the Austrian Alps. It is run by the same people as Tour-Transalp so no doubt the organization will be superb. An interesting change is the inclusion of individual athletes along with teams of 2.
So far, all has been good with jumping into this event at the last minute. Accommodations were a breeze to book... plane ticket was cheaper... no crowds travelling. Racing solo is the best option for me as I can go my pace and have no commitment teammate-wise (as I'm pretty good at racing until I drop!). If I really need to I can chill out and take the extra recovery necessary, especially this being my intro race back from a super long rebuild/recover time. And I will!
The weather looks to be on the colder side (4-10C) with possible rain. Brrr... though should be ok for a Cdn. I might even pack an extra few bits of clothing in a pack.
Andrea and her family are going to drive me over to the race start Sat, after some early season glacier downhill skiing in the morning. Only in Austria!



Start: Kirchberg

• Stage 1: 14.09.08 2434m 122km Neukirchen


• Stage 2: 15.09.08 2539m 132km Lienz


• Stage 3: 16.09.08 2445m 115km Hermagor


• Stage 4: 17.09.08 3664m 142km St. Michael im Lungau


• Stage 5: 18.09.08 1432m 81km Ramsau am Dachstein


• Stage 6: 19.09.08 1362m 77km Murau


• Stage 7: 20.09.08 1598m 96km Velden am Wörthersee

total: 15,474 hm 764 km

Sponsored Gear for TA-2008

Thanks to:

• Jeantex Sportswear - one of the main sponsors of Tour-Trans-Austria for the race entry in trade to wear their jersey racing. Pretty nice deal!
  
• Rob at Vellendtech for my favourite SIDI shoes - spiffy white road Genius 6.6 carbon model in 2008 - comfy like slippers!

• Crankbrothers for lightweight pedals - Quattro 4Ti, 226g per pair!


• Adidas Eyewear for cool sunglasses - I'll be sporting either the SuperNova frame or the very Euro looking Evil Eye Pro.

• OGC for the GIRO helmet for 2007 TAs

Austrian Reunion

It was surreal to take a plane from Edmonton Tuesday evening... with two flights and a train ride later... to arrive in Maurach am Achensee, Austria by Wednesday evening. The travel seemed so quick. I was visiting with a friend I made from Tour-Transalp 2006, Andrea Sendlhofer, and her family, husband Toni and son Lukas. All the other TAs I've done since, Andrea and her family were somewhere on course cheering for my team. It was a pleasant surprise to get unexpected cheers!

Back in the early 80's, Andrea (Haase) was a World Cup skier for Austria. It was cool that she recognized Loni Kletl's name from her days as World Cup skier.

I took the bike around Lake Achensee the next afternoon on a nice easy ride in the warm sun. The bike paths are marked and this one in particular is one that goes from Germany (DE) to Austria (AT), hence, the photo of the country symbols of the Eagle (AT) and the Lion (DE) riding a tandem bike.

Missing in Action post-Sep 2007!

My race reports prior to "Missing in Action" after succumbing to mind-boggling health issues mid-season 2007…

… will be found on my old website, ha, which is now defunct as noted today 2025-May-03. I will slowly repopulate the awesome old race stories on this blog some time this year.

Most of my epic events were covered. Please take a peek! 

Mountain Bike
Road Bike
Adventure Racing

Breathe Magazine - Tour of the Himalayas, by Marg Fedyna

Breathe Magazine 2008 Winter Issue

To view the pdf document --> click on the arrow in the box below

La Ruta de los Conquistadores 2006 - Article & Podium

2006 La Ruta Podium shot after 3 days of racing in Costa Rica from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast

Louise Kobin (2nd), Hillary Harrison (3rd), Marg Fedyna (1st), Rebecca Rusch (4th), Cristine de Mezerville Ferrero (5th)

 

Crazy article written by Nick Lees, Edmonton Journal

 

 

 

La Ruta training

Photo from Moose Mountain road Sep 18, 2006 after the first snow storm of the season. I had a good mountain bike climb up and chilly ride down. Brrr...

VELONEWS - 2005 24-Hours of Adrenalin World Solo Championships

My debut in VELONEWS magazine with a champagne celebration podium photo and article!

 
  

LUSH

A friend saw my photo inside a LUSH advertisement! My teammate and I were given LUSH bath bombs with our TransRockies Challenge prizing.