2023 Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour: the tour programme
The programme of the 2023 Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour is out, at least where the tour ride is concerned. Once again there are four tour days for recreational skating enthusiasts. You can be part of these special days.
200 km on the ice
Skating the wondrous Weissensee yourselfis the stuff of dreams. All the more so when you tie a sporting goal to it. Such as skating the Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour… 200 km on the ice.
A tour this demanding does ask for some preparation. It stands to reason that being well trained matters enormously. That goes hand in hand with skating talent, or with the basic technique you can learn.
In summer you can start by building up your leg muscles with plenty of kilometres on the bike. In autumn you can take skating lessons , on the ‘sacred’ ice of Thialf (Heerenveen), for instance.
Strength, stamina and technique will get you a long way. Although things can always go wrong… But with the skating speed you need you will usually make it ‘just fine’ within the skating time available.
The 2023 tour ride programme
The 200 km tour ride starts at 07.00. These are the tour days on the programme:
- Tuesday 24 January 2023 Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour – 200 kilometre tour ride
- Friday 27 January 2023 Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour – 200 kilometre tour ride
- Tuesday 31 January 2023 Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour – 200 kilometre tour ride
- Friday 3 February 2023 Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour – 200 kilometre tour ride
On those same tour days the organisation also offers the option of a ‘Prestatietocht’, a performance ride. That one starts at 09.00. In the Prestatietocht you set out to complete 100 km.
The organisation explains
On the official website of Stichting Wintersporten the organisation offers an explanation. “We look forward to seeing you back on the Weissenseein 2023. The tour version of the Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour and the Weissensee Prestatietocht take place on the usual Tuesdays and Fridays.”
They also point to the famous entertainment during the event: “The entertainment programme is back too, of course, with the riders’ gathering, the blister ball and ‘bingo with Jannes’.”
Corona and the 2023 Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour
Both the 2021 edition and the 2022 edition were cancelled because of corona. That is why the AEW stresses that no rights can be derived from the programme.
“The consequences of COVID-19 for our event in 2023 cannot be assessed yet. The programme is therefore expressly subject to the approval of the regional and local authorities.”
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