Christoph Strasser - Moving Forward

Christoph Strasser has been participating in ultra cycling races since 2002 and has developed into the number one in the world over the following years. His records and victories at the Race Across America are material for the history books. After a total of 9 attempts and 6 victories in the toughest ultracycling race in the world, Strasser sought a new challenge: unsupported ultracycling. Completely on his own and equipped only with a racing bike and the necessary essentials, Strasser set out for a new challenge. And he found it. The Transcontinental Race, thousands of kilometers across Europe, was just a utopia in the mind of the exceptional athlete from Styria a few years ago. Unlike the goals he had already achieved, which Strasser always experienced with his team, unsupported races, as the name suggests, take place without support and without a team. Although, in addition to the physical strain, there is also the organizational aspect in advance, where he has to plan the route, nutrition, and sleep strategy for a distance of up to 5000 kilometers himself, it ultimately comes down to one thing in unsupported races: moving forward. Christoph Strasser takes his audience on a very personal and athletic journey. How has the first part of his athletic existence influenced the second part? How has he grown as a person, and what lessons does he take from the past 20 years of ultracycling to tackle personal and athletic challenges? In this multimedia presentation, there will be images and videos of the greatest defeats and the most beautiful victories. It’s about records, humorous stories, and how each person in the room can take their own personal progress into their own hands and positively influence it based on the content of the presentation.