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It was about 35 degrees average, give or take.
As a heatlet, I wanted to take it easy, but I had really had no other choice.

The race started and Garmin was showing 45 (not a typo) degrees on the sun, after 3 km there was a downhill and I saw first chute brutale. A gentleman was laying on a kerb and he was clearly deceased. Onlookers were already giving him the last rites.
First 15 km were ok, first climb I rode at easy tempo (240 w) to see what happens but gradually the heat got to me and all the climbs I had to ride at 200 watts.

I was stopping at every water station (there were 4) and each stop I drank like 1 liter of water and poured another on me. Then for 5 minutes it was okay until it wasn't.

At some 70 km it started to rain a little and the race got down next to Moldau in a shadow, suddenly it was 25 degrees and me legs have awoken. Me and two guys were scoring big watts and overtook about 100 guys till the final alto that was again on a sun, but i think I still scored some good watts.