Home Trails – Interview with Katharina Kruse
We met with Katharina from the Ibis-FIDLOCK Racing Team on a sunny, but freezing cold day in the Deister, Germany, where we shooted new products and talked to her about cycling in the cold season. Winter’s unpopularity is actually quite unjustified if you only know how to deal with it. Katharina has told us her tips on how to keep the motivation for biking in winter.
Katharina has been riding the Enduro for about three years. Relatively short for the level she’s already riding. What she lacks in experience she makes up for with ambition and passion. In 2019, she rode successfully with Mirjam Kuhn in the Ibis-FIDLOCK Racing Team and was able to achieve some successes. Among others, she won the Kronplatz Race as well as the Overall Alpine Enduro Series in the Duo Mix category. In the Enduro Paganella Race, she and Mirjam were the fastest women in the Duo Woman category.
When Katharina is not riding in an Enduro series in Europe or sitting in university, she prefers to ride in the Deister, a mountain range in the Calenberger Land, which is right in front of her (and our) front door. The highest point is 405 m high and there are many different trails.
But now the mountain bike season is over, the races are in the books, the popular trail areas will be opened for the skiers. This does not stop Katharina from spending many hours on her Ibis Ripmo. The motivation not to prefer the couch to the enduro bike in spite of rain, cold and mud, she takes from her personal desire to constantly learn more.
If the temperatures drop around the freezing point, however, it becomes a little trickier.
We were happy to sit in the warm car again, but watching Katharina definitely made us want to go out for the next ride. And now it’s clear how. See you soon at the Deister!