#epicseries

[witchofhellridge]

🌿✨ Big Announcement: My Original Solarpunk Story Has Arrived! ✨🌿

I’m incredibly excited to introduce The Gathering of the Last Kin, a solarpunk short story that sets the stage for a much larger epic! 🌍 Imagine a world where the magic that once sustained life is fading away, and its leaders face the unthinkable: abandoning everything they know to cross into a magicless world.

But this story is just a glimpse of what's to come! It serves as a teaser for an upcoming series of books that will explore the struggles of survival, adaptation, and rebuilding in a solarpunk world teetering between magic and technology. 🌱💡 If you love fantasy mixed with eco-futurism and epic stakes, this series is for you!

✨ Where can you follow my work? ✨ I’ll be sharing more about this world, the characters, and future chapters on the following platforms:

Patreon

Wattpad

AO3

Webnovel

Scribblehub

Booksie

Inkitt

This story is only the beginning, and I can't wait to take you along on this journey through new worlds, fading magic, and the quest to rebuild. Let’s explore together! 🌿✨

[thebikecomesfirst]

The first one is done!! It was great to finally see the type of terrain & trails we are dealing with this week. And it was awesome! Tough climbs but the descents were worth it. I thought the bikes were going to stay clean because it was dry, but right at the end we got ‘em dirty with a muddy section. In total today we climbed 1550m over 42km in just under 4h.

[thebikecomesfirst]

I’ve been editing the GoPro footage we captured for the 2021 Swiss Epic. It reminded me how beautiful the trails & the scenery were in St-Moritz. I'll be posting six long videos: The Test Course and the five stages. Stay tuned!

[thebikecomesfirst]

I know it sounds annoyingly cliché, but the year 2021 is one where I raised the bar for myself, and that was utterly crucial to me. It seemed like I had been battling a headwind for too long —sometimes thinking of giving up—that I absolutely needed to crush my limits. And holy cow, did I smash them.

I completed my first entire season of XC Marathon, five races with double the Olympic distance. Then leveled up to Ultra Marathon training with back-to-back epic rides, one of which was the 212 km of the Belgian Waffle Ride. All that to prepare for one of the most demanding races in our sport: the Swiss Epic.

It scared me a lot. It was brutal. But with the help of my teammate Peter Wilson, we conquered the Alps! What used to be one challenging race distance, now we could do it five days in a row.

So 2021 is a year I'm proud of. Not just for the cycling part, but also how I applied the same mindset to every aspect of my life.

And I'm stoked to be sharing the first race stage video tomorrow. Stay tuned on my YouTube channel! I'll be posting a race stage every week.

[thebikecomesfirst]

Swiss Epic Stage 3 "the queen stage" is up on YouTube. Watch here → https://youtu.be/Vl_nMzQGQqM

The Scaletta Pass between St Moritz and Davos was no joke at 2,600 m elevation; rough both up and down.

[thebikecomesfirst]

Swiss Epic Stage 4 video is up!

Watch here → https://youtu.be/dnsOyKd0FSY

They call it “the single track stage”. And in this one we rescue the medic!

[thebikecomesfirst]

New +2h long video on my YouTube channel. Watch it here → https://youtu.be/UwfvJna8F4M

This was stage 1/5 of the Swiss Epic mountain bike race in the stunning canton of Graubünden. The stage featured some of the most scenic single tracks I have ever seen. The highlight was the lengthy Corviglia flow trail, where we rode countless outstanding berms in a picturesque postcard. It took us 5:36:54 to complete the 62km and 2350m of climbing. Saving energy for the next four days was a priority, but we couldn't help it sometimes when the trails were so inviting.

[thebikecomesfirst]

The final video of our Swiss Epic race is going up this week on YouTube. The conclusion of a week of incredible riding. If you watched all 16 hours of footage, I think you might be ready to conquer the alps 😆