47 kilometers with my new velo...
I have had my bike almost the whole week, so I was thinking that of course I could drive a little bit longer route than before. Ok my condition is not good, because I´ve been so lazy with sport and exercise, but still I wanted to do longer trip, if it will feel hard, you can always take a break or slow down or even turn back..
So where to go ? I looked from the map that where is the nearest lake, and it was Sempachersee lake in Sursee. One way distance is a little bit over 20 kilometers, not bad.. I put my alarm clock to wake me up at 9:00, weather was very good for a biking, +16 and cloudy, not too cold, not too hot, maybe it will rain later, but that´s not a problem. I ate a light breakfast, filled my bottle with water, wrote my destination to my phone navigation and I was ready to go. I have to say that using navigation from your phone is not that practical with a bike. I don´t have any holder for my phone in my bike, so i had to keep it in my pocket, and if you want to know where you are or where to go next, you have to stop, just because of the safety reasons, that was stupid... But soon I will buy a GPS navigation for cycling, first I just have to choose which one.. Btw, I also bought a cycling gloves with gel padding protection, with short fingers.. Very nice and must to have for a longer rides.
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| First view, there it is, Sursee and lake Sempachersee.. |
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| But still so far... |
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| Of course, McDonalds :-) |
Finally I arrived to Sursee, I didn´t even look the time, but it took about hour and half. The route was quite easy even for my bad condition. There was uphills and downhills, but not too hard. Short parts of the road were sand and rocks, but that wasn´t a big problem with my bike, even if I don´t have fat tires. So from where I can find the lake ? Ou, there it is...
I got new friends too.. Friendly ducks.. They didn´t care about me much, so I was sitting with them for a few minutes, I need to get some power back to drive back home.
Time to move on.. I was thinking that should I drive around the lake, but I didn´t do that, because part of those roads were so bad to drive with a bike.
In these landscapes I finally had a little bit of that finnish "kesämökki" feeling.. Lake, trees, summer cottage and birds singing in the silence.
My trip took totally about four hours with breaks by the lake. 47 kilometers biking. It wasn´t that hard that I was expecting. In the evening I felt something in my legs, but maybe more in my butt, I think for beginners that´s normal. But now I know that I can go even further... 60km, 80km, 100km or TO THE ALPS !? Absolutely...
But first I really have to buy this GPS navigation system, that was the only thing what was bothering me in this trip. I need to ask from my honey some money for that ;-) Maybe some flowers will help.....
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