On Friday 14 December the DTCC/SSS cycling team returned to
On Saturday morning 8 December, and not yet completely recovered from the Christmas Luncheon the day before, Henrik Friis, Rasmus Ellefsen, Bent Laasholdt and Na, Claus Bergenfelt, Morten Luxhoei, Mads Tranum, Hans Henrik Melchior, Alan Valtas and Marion (visiting from Australia) and Jesper Madsen (visiting from Denmark), drove from Bangkok to Ban Chang, to start the ride there. In Ban Chang they met up with the “Pattaya gang”, consisting of Oskar Joergensen and his family (Norwegian) and Claus Birk Thomsen.
The Saturday ride was about 50 km to
The Monday ride was a short 55 km ride bringing the team on to
Henrik Friis, Rasmus Ellefsen and the Oskar Joergensen family had to return to Bangkok/Pattaya resp. from Laem Sing, however the rest of the team continued on Tuesday all the way to Koh Chang, a ride of about 75 km. The first part of the ride on small side roads to Khlung. Then a stretch of about 25 km on HW 3, which in this part of Thailand is quite scenic and with less traffic. The team then turned south towards the Koh Chang Ferry landing, and encountered the first serious hills on this Tour. At the ferry landing the bikes were loaded on the van and car, as the hills from the ferry landing on Koh Chang to
Wednesday was a day of rest. Thursday the team was back in the saddles again for a 30 km ride along Koh Chang’s east coast down to Salak Phet for lunch in a cosy lagoon there and then 30 km back again. This was a beautiful and scenic ride with several challenging hills, which all participants conquered.
Again the red and white team jerseys were an impressive sight in the landscape the team passed through.