BikingMan Portugal race report (English version)

Less than a month after finishing the IncaDivide and only three days after coming back from our holidays in Peru with Elo, I’m already in Portugal for my next BikingMan race. It’s a sprint of 950 km starting and finishing in Faro with an elevation gain of 11.000m. For this event, I decided to pick my Merckx EM525 as it’s a race bike and it suits more the road conditions and profile of the Algarve and Alentejo regions. On paper, it seems that the itinerary is way easier than the IncaDivide, but this promises a very fast race and I should not have a lot of relief moments. My strategy for this race is thus to sleep as little as possible and certainly not in hotels in order to cover the 950 km in less than 48 hours. This is very ambitious, knowing that I never rode by night nor for more than 24h. But with my good results in Peru, I’m confident and highly motivated ! The rockets are launched after the start in Faro After a very early breakfast, we all meet unde...