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
250km and 8:55h later (net riding time) we arrived in Turku. The pictures and videos of this day (above) are placed on the map in the Sports Tracker service, link provided in the side bar.
The highlights of the day in summary.
Continue reading about Bike Tour Day 1: Finland, Nastola - Turku, 250km
The bike tour that starts on Monday 22.06. is covered live via the Internet. You can track where are any minute on the Nokia Sports Tracker. You’ll see our current position on a map, together with speed and heart rate information. Well never mind the latter, I don’t expect readers to go totally excited by [...]
Through Germany on day 5+6+7
Arrival in Travemünde on Friday June, 26 at 7:00 am. It’s another 650km in Germany from the “Skandinavienkai”, the ferry harbour in Travemünde all the way down to Ansbach, a 40.000 souls small town, about 50km west of Nuremburg. The main differences to cycling in Sweden are a better quality road [...]
Continue reading about The Bike Tour - 1600km in 7 days, part III
Through Sweden on day 2+3+4
It’s roughly 650km through southern Sweden from Stockholm to Trelleborg. I’m not sure at this point whether it’ll take us 3 days or it would be possible to ride the whole distance in two. If we’d try in 2 day, it would be probably a hell of a ride, 300+km per [...]
Continue reading about The Bike Tour - 1600km in 7 days, part II
The English head down to Spain for summer. The Germans go there as well and eat up all the breakfast because they get up earlier. Or they stay home and enjoy balconia. The Swedes travel their country with a trailer or a camper and move from camping site to camping site. The Finns head out [...]
click to enlarge
2911km to be exact are behind in this 400days project. What did we learn from almost 3000km? We’re not as good as we’d like to be and it takes quite some time to become a little bit better. Running in warm and sunny weather is much nicer than in a horizontal snow [...]
click to enlarge
… aim for the unreachable, get as close as you can. The definition of art by Markus Lüpertz, the director of the Kunstakademie (art academy) Düsseldorf is the motto of 400days.
After the race in Rotterdam, the view gradually shifts towards the fall and the main marathon in Berlin. The question has [...]
For an overview of the different training phases see the masterplan. Here the training program in detail from jan 2009 onwards.
The daily km is summed up to a weekly amount in the grey lines. the weekly intensity is represented by a green, yellow, orange or red tag on the right. intensity is a measure based [...]
click to enlarge
for an overview of the different training phases see the masterplan. Here the training program in detail from jan 2009 onwards.
The daily km is summed up to a weekly amount in the grey lines. the weekly intensity is represented by a green, yellow, orange or red tag on the right. intensity is [...]
