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Energy Management for committed athletes and coaches.

For two riders in the Wadda, Spain, it didn't take a five hour bus journey north ahead

of the race's second race day to create a sense of disorientation.

While others in the race experience the schlep from El Baraco to Laredo and the Cantabrian

Coast as a voyage into a different Spain.

For Benz Fihoff and Tony Poutser of Borahanskara, the Vueltaispania is just the latest boldest

step into a brand new world.

One year ago Poutser was 27 and rightly considered one of the leading performers on the planet.

And ski mountaineering or ski mo, a relatively new but also growing discipline in which participants

both ascend and descend mountains on skis.

He was also a world-class sky runner who had both wild and horrified audiences with

these razor-z edge record-breaking conquests of the Watsmen, one of Germany's highest

and most famous peaks.

Tony Poutser erwischt an insane day.

He is the same as a gumsfloat of the 27th grade over the high Alpine Tour.

Over the high mountain, the 2713 meter high and this speed and that was the

Watsmen's highest mountain.

Poutser had grown up deep in the Bavarian Alps, the son of a mountain guide, weaned on

thin air and daring adventures.

The 27 year old Benz Fihoff by contrast comes from a place more readily associated with

smoking chimneys rather than glistening summits.

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