Yes of course. They do have paved streets and walkways there as well and actually training can be very efficient since often you need to get out of the Neckar valley and that means going uphill for more than 15 minutes without a break. It meant for me climbing up 140m in altitude, that drove [...]
Somehow it just doesn’t surprise me that this happened to me on a Saturday afternoon in the Finnish summer. I was just about to leave the athletics stadium in Nastola, a 15.000 soul community just east of Lahti (southern Finland), as two taxis shot into the large and abandoned car park, a bunch of rounder [...]
That’s the way life goes. A long run on the weekend schedule, but something breaks down and the janitor role is forced to priority level.
It looked so good. 107km accumulated in the first 5 days of the week, until Friday evening. A deserved rest on Saturday. And the Long run would add a heap [...]
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Zero punctures: tyres with kevlar layers are pretty sturdy nowadays
One armrest of the triathlon handle bar broke off, could be replaced 230km later
Two legs hurt afterwards, actually already from day 4 onwards, after the two faster days in southern Sweden with average speeds over 30km/h the thighs got pretty tired.
Three kilos were lost on the [...]
Arrived at the final destination save and sound. The last day was quite good to ride, although the legs were tired and they were happy to hear that it’s the last day. Other than for those guys, who ride the Tour de France. If I’m not mistaken, they go beyond 3000km in those 14 days, [...]
Continue reading about Bike Tour Day 7: Germany, Meiningen - Ansbach
In the morning, I was close to call it quits and look for the next train station. It just was no fun to ride. Water from above, a drizzling rain set in. Water from below, the streets were wet and my bike wheels started to act like sprinklers with a lot of water ending on [...]
Continue reading about Bike Tour Day 6: Germany, Braunschweig - Meiningen, 245km
Riding alone is only half the fun. Stefano’s knee didn’t get better. The pain krept up into the thighs, we decided it’s better for him to quit and take the train, unfortunately. The stakes were too high, it could have harmed his marathon training and Berlin preparation schedule. After all Stefano’s damn close to go [...]
Continue reading about Bike Tour Day 5: Germany, Travemünde - Braunschweig, 235km
The last of the three Sweden days saw me riding in the southern tip of this fine country. I hate to say this but everything in the landscape and countryside looks a tad nicer than in Finland. Well looked after farms and country houses and less dense forests. The southern tip then has a lot [...]
Continue reading about Bike Tour Day 4: Sweden, Växjö - Trelleborg, 235km
Today it happened, the big disruption - Stefano’s knee. Some minor indications already yesterday, it hurt a bit while riding but not badly and no swelling or so. We started to ride in the morning and quickly had quite a speed, average around 30km/h. But the knee started to hurt so badly after about 80km [...]
Continue reading about Bike Tour Day 3: Sweden, Söderköping - Växjö, 252km
Stockholm is horrible to go through by bike. Especially if you’re not local and planned the route based on major ways to get out of the city. The signage of the cycle paths leads you constantly to the other side of the road or far away from it. At the end we opted to hop [...]
Continue reading about Bike Tour Day 2: Sweden, Stockholm - Söderköping, 192km
