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Ultra cyclist Riina Klais-Peets, who competes independently in the Tour of France, told the summer edition of Ringvaate that the sport has given her a completely different level of discipline, which is also useful at work.
About a year ago, Riina Klais-Peets started taking cycling more seriously. While watching the Italian Bike Tour this spring, she began to think that it would be fun to ride 150-200 kilometers every day for three weeks. When the woman’s vacation started at the end of June, just a few days before the French Bike Tour, she had the idea to go on her own.
“You ride the same distance every day as you would on a bike tour. Not at the same speed and certainly not the same ascent, which is not even mathematically possible in Estonia, but you do it together and see how it feels,” he explains, adding that these days, the distance is just under 180km, which is a lot to take away from the tour. “It was even more than 200km in four days.”
Clays-Pitz didn’t dare tell his friends about his plan until four days into the ride. On the third day of the trip, when he had covered 230 kilometers, he felt that the goal he had set for himself was not feasible. “This situation lasted for about 15 minutes, and then it was over. Generally speaking, in extreme sports, these difficult moments come and go, just like climbing in the Estonian landscape,” he recalled.
According to the rider, riding on Estonia’s smaller roads is quite nice. “Maybe someone who doesn’t ride a bike as often as I do can’t appreciate that Estonia has a huge amount of small asphalt roads with very little traffic. It’s pretty cool to ride on. Especially because there are so many asphalt roads, you have a lot of them to discover there, and they’re very diverse,” he said, praising the roads of his home country. “I think it’s amazing how many roads are paved and completely empty. You can drive for hours and see one or two cars and then wonder who it was made for.”
According to Clays-Pitts, there’s a lot you can think about during a six- to seven-hour ride. “At the same time, you think about work, life, how nice it would be to get paid. I’m always thinking about how to turn daily riding into a lifestyle. I don’t have a good business plan yet, but I’m working on it,” he said with a smile.
Clays-Pitts believes that playing sports brings a whole different level of discipline to life. “You can actually get more done at work, you can focus better, and at some point you start to think of your work as a sport, and you monitor how much you can handle,” he noted. “The more exercise I do, the more I can work.”
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