After 33 days of cycling, 3172km and two restdays I finally arrived in Ludvika. I feel lucky and grateful that I can do this and have not had any problems with knee, bum or anything. Great adventure!
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| Arriving in Ludvika |
The experience of the day is easy to sum up: forest. But the roads are good, the traffic light, and with the occasional views and the lakes on the last part, it is a nice ride.
The first km after Västerås until Skultuna are on bike lanes. After that, you're on the road, but as said, with largely little traffic.
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| It's all about forests |
The landscape is a bit more hilly than most of the tour with 620m of (gross) ascent. This is the highest of the whole tour, but the days in Poland close to the border with Kaliningrad came close with roughly 550m. More hilly means slightly harder, but also nicer because you get more views.
I was lucky with the weather also, the weather forecast predicted rain showers, but I avoided them. On the whole trip, I only got three half days and one whole day with rain - nothing to complain about. But it has been relatively cold.
In Ludvika, Ralf and Elly formed a welcome comittee, and I could rest, take a shower and was offered food and drink. Wonderful.
And that was it for 2025. I hope to take another long bicycle trip next year, but no concrete plans so far.
117km in 8 hours, active time 6:30.
Total 3172km.
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