It’s been a couple weeks (weather and general life happening), but the weather was supposed to be great today (and it was), so I wanted to take advantage of it. A couple weekends ago our pal Special K came up to visit and brought her bike. That Saturday it rained like God had decided on a Do-Over, but there was a pottery market happening at Kloster Adlersberg. I thought that would be a nice bike destination under decent weather conditions, and I was right....
After last week’s 60+km record breaker, I toned it back down again to 50ish today. I thought I would treat myself to some nice flat stretches along a river for the last leg. I am not so sure that is the right approach; “mostly flat” is “partly hilly” and even where truly flat, I was tired of being in the saddle, and mad at friction for forcing me to keep pedaling....
I was pretty sure I don’t like rides over 50 km in length. Walking the next day is a real pain. But those 50ish km rides have all been with a mixture of terrain. So I thought I would try a longer — but flatter — ride along the Danube today. I rode from our house to Wörth an der Donau and back. Guess what? The knees are a little better off for it, but DA BUTT is not....
I’ve been doing my rides mostly on the weekends, since Kurzarbeit is over for me now. I’ve been lazy about posting them, but less lazy about actually doing them. So that’s good. In my last post, I picked GraphHopper.com as a mapping service, but I’m wary of it now. This time it routed me through a farm at the top of a long, slow hill at Aignhof… and a Rottweiler-looking dog was quite angry at my presence....
Kurzarbeit tomorrow – presumably the last one for this round of economic crises (or, let’s hope so anyways). I had an important week at work last week, so to be there for all of it, I opted to make my last Kurzabeit day of the month the last Monday of the month instead of Friday. I planned out my route using GraphHopper.com – first time using that service, but I am sure I’ll be back....