"Before you stand at the start of a race, all nervous and freezing, you have a rough idea of what it will be like. You focus on the data, the waypoints, the facts and then, in the middle of nowhere, it becomes something else, like it always does because data, in the end, is nothing but a blurb. You sit in front of a blank sheet of paper, wondering where to start and while your memory slips away, you stare at the blinking cursor - there is no story to be found. The real story is written between those tiny dots, between the GPS tracker's refresh, maybe it's in the lines, the lines on the road and the weary, tired faces, it's in the lines between each rider, the connection of loose events, faces, random views, encounters and vertical meters." Read @elza_per_se full account of the Mittelgebirgeclassique on our journal - link in bio. #thechaseison