Tour 4

Hochspeyer - Johanniskreuz - Hochspeyer

On tour nr. 4 there are 14.1 km trail to be ridden. At the end you’ll have a total of 63.6 km on your tachometer and without noticing it (?!) you’ll have flattened 1160 m climbs.

This means you’ll have used 2500 kcal up. You should replace these again in the forest inn in Schwarzsohl so you won’t have to get off your bike and push up the last climb from Leinbachtal to Schlossberg. Our highlands can be merciless. And if you do have to push, just keep in mind; where it goes up always goes down again.

63,6 km	1160 m	13,3 km	15 km	21,1 km	14,3 km

Stage:
Hochspeyer - Waldleiningen - Hochspeyer

We call this round tour the 3 hill tour. 3 long climbs are divided evenly over the 31.6 km stretch. You’ll be rewarded with great downhill riides in spectacular countryside.

Shortly after the start in Hochspeyer you can go on a few rounds of the separately marked cross-country grounds near the youth hostel and take a sniff at genuine “racing atmosphere”. Perhaps there will be an official race on these grounds in 2005 and early training has never harmed anyone. “ The first day after the tour is the first day before the next”. (Lance Armstrong)

31,6 km	592 m	10,3 km	6,9 km	8,8 km	5,6 km

Stage:
Johanniskreuz - Waldleiningen - Johanniskreuz

“Short, but not small”; just right for an outing between Sunday lunch and the Spoorts’ Report. Your aim on this “ronda piccola” is the “Pfaelzer Weltachs” (Palatinate axis of the world), central point of our beautiful earth. According to an old tradition this has to be oiled now and again, so that everything’s o.k. in “good old Germany” and the rest of the world. Don’t forget your oil (schnaps) can!

32 km	553 m	4,2 km	11,2 km	9,1 km	7,5 km