Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Ready to head home
Spent the day in Arvidsjaur organising tickets home, cartons for our bikes and a bottle of wine for the journey home. Now we're packed and waiting for the bus.
However today we've managed to experience the first major accident of the trip. Micke, clearly wanting to look good on the train, had to buy some hair gel. Unfortunately Micke, unlike Iain, isn't so well practiced at cycling with a shopping bag hanging over his handlebars. Lo and behold bag gets jammed in the front wheel, hair gel gets squeezed open and now Micke has a front rim coated in sticky hair gel.
Otherwise, no major issues to report!
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However today we've managed to experience the first major accident of the trip. Micke, clearly wanting to look good on the train, had to buy some hair gel. Unfortunately Micke, unlike Iain, isn't so well practiced at cycling with a shopping bag hanging over his handlebars. Lo and behold bag gets jammed in the front wheel, hair gel gets squeezed open and now Micke has a front rim coated in sticky hair gel.
Otherwise, no major issues to report!
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Race report - Sverigetempot 2011
After a short night's sleep we set off this morning just after 6am from Moskosel for the first stretch of the day - the 46km ride to breakfast at Arvidsjaur.
We expected it to be tough to get the legs going and that it was, going extremely slowly up the first long climb. I think for both of us it was mostly the lack of strength in the legs.
We're now at Arvidsjaur and without any long discussion we've come to an agreed decision - we're retiring from the race. We're neither overly disappointed nor frustrated - just happy that we made a good attempt at such a tough challenge and are wise enough to stop now rather than later.
As seasoned cyclists who train about 12-15,000 kms per year this turned out to be a huge challenge. We've now learned to have a huge respect for the other participants, whether they do it in record time, get there inside the 9 day limit or just do like us and give it a try.
Good luck to everyone still in the race and thanks to the organisers for doing a great job.
Now we're off to fika....
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We expected it to be tough to get the legs going and that it was, going extremely slowly up the first long climb. I think for both of us it was mostly the lack of strength in the legs.
We're now at Arvidsjaur and without any long discussion we've come to an agreed decision - we're retiring from the race. We're neither overly disappointed nor frustrated - just happy that we made a good attempt at such a tough challenge and are wise enough to stop now rather than later.
As seasoned cyclists who train about 12-15,000 kms per year this turned out to be a huge challenge. We've now learned to have a huge respect for the other participants, whether they do it in record time, get there inside the 9 day limit or just do like us and give it a try.
Good luck to everyone still in the race and thanks to the organisers for doing a great job.
Now we're off to fika....
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Day 1 report - Sverigetempot 2012
Called it a day (or a night) when we reached Moskosel after 459kms at 31.5 average giving 14:36 ride time and 16:48 total time.
Both exhausted, but in good humour. Tomorrow we ride!
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Both exhausted, but in good humour. Tomorrow we ride!
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