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This weekend @Cycliste and I were in Basel, riding with @Cycliste's Swiss club, the Veloclub Allschwill. On Sunday it was the Gempen hillclimb from Dornach to Gempen or, to give it its official name, the Rad-Bergzeitfahren Dornach-Gempen. I only got the chance to recce half the climb before the race, and I took it fairly steadily, so I was frankly quite slow. I beat @Cycliste, but only by ten seconds:
On Sunday it was the Schwarzbeube Rundfahrt, also starting and finishing in Dornach, which we rode with members of the VCA. @Cycliste told me it would be like a gentle club ride. In fact, it was bloody hard as the climbs aren't that long but the VCA riders really shift up them. A good day's riding though.
They do have a crazy way of rotating riders when riding in a group though, where the two riders at the front split off to both sides and the long group of riders 2-abreast ride between them, with the result that you end up riding 4-abreast for long periods of time, usually on roads that aren't really wide enough for that sort of tomfoolery. Craziness.