Visiting a club in Austria

Posted by Marilyn Mucha on Oct 03, 2016

While on vacation, I attended a Rotary meeting September 22 in Imst, Austria (about 30 minutes outside of Innsbruck).

The Rotary Club of Imst-Landeck meets on Thursday evenings over dinner. They have 65 members (no women) and only 18 were in attendance this day.

The guest speaker for this meeting was Pierre Bischoff, the 2016 Race Across America Ultra bike race solo winner - 3,000 miles from California to Maryland that he completed in 9 days 15 hours. His nearest competitor was 7 hours behind him.

Check out his website and video … incredible journey … racing 11 hours and sleeping for half an hour.

http://www.pierrebischoff.de/race-across-america/raam-2016-pierre-bischoff-gewinnt-als-erster-deutscher-das-race-across-america/

It was a fascinating meeting to hear his story … all in German on this gruelling race and his setbacks given that he was in a car accident only 16 days prior to the race where he broke his collarbone.

We exchanged banners and I was graciously given a ride back to where I was staying by a young club member who was a former Rotaractor, and now a commercial realtor in Innsbruck.

A great experience that I highly recommend for any club member.