ZeitFahr-CUP Speed Seibersdorf 44: Course, Route Profile & Map

Course & Elevation

As with the short version, the start is at the Hauptstrasse car park in Seibersdorf at just under 190 metres. The loop runs via Reisenberg to Hof an der Leitha and back, ridden twice for just under 45 kilometres in total.

None of that changes the terrain: the course stays between 176 and 202 metres, with no categorised climb and no descent that hands back recovery. What changes is the repetition. The second lap covers already-familiar kilometres, and that knowledge is a double-edged tool: it allows precise pacing, but it also makes every first-lap mistake felt a second time.

As across the series, classification is split between time trial bike and road bike and between women's and men's fields, with a pair classification running alongside. Riders set off at intervals from midday with no drafting permitted. Over an hour in the open valley the wind becomes the defining factor, and because there are two laps, every wind section hits twice.

Pacing Strategy

An hour of flat time trialling is a different task from half an hour. Target output sits closer to threshold than above it, and the difference between a good and a bad time is made almost entirely on the second lap.

Use the lapped course as a tool. Ride the first lap deliberately as the more controlled of the two, at an output you are confident you can repeat. Coming through the start you then have a real split and a solid comparison rather than just a feeling. Ride the first lap as a personal best and you will lose more on the second than you gained.

The real trap is the repetition of the wind sections. The headwind stretch comes twice, and the second time on tired legs. Hold output rather than speed there, stay in the aero position and accept the lower speed. And because the effort lasts an hour, unlike the short version, drinking genuinely belongs in the plan.

Training plan for ZeitFahr-CUP Speed Seibersdorf 44: 12-week build

For these 44 flat kilometres, plan on roughly 55 to 80 minutes of riding depending on your level. The demand is one continuous effort at threshold with no accelerations and no recovery, simply far longer than a classic short time trial. That moves aerobic endurance alongside raw threshold power into the centre of the preparation.

Long threshold blocks are the base. Progress from 2 by 20 minutes through 3 by 20 minutes to one continuous 50-to-60-minute effort just under threshold that mirrors race duration. Ride those sessions in race position, because an hour low on the extensions loads back, neck and breathing differently than twenty minutes does.

The second lap decides the race. Train the specific ability to produce the same output again after 30 minutes at threshold: two long blocks with a very short break between them reproduce that far better than four short ones with full recovery.

Two things matter here that barely register over the short distance. First, aerodynamics over duration: the position has to hold for an hour without restricting your breathing, or it costs more than it gains. Second, fuelling: at over an hour in the summer heat of the Leitha valley, drinking and a small carbohydrate intake need rehearsing, including the question of how you reach the bottle from the aero position at all.