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Long rides, written down

Not a training diary. Just what the road looked like, and what broke on the way.

I started keeping this after a wet week in the Carpathians when I realised I could not remember which pass had the tunnel and which one had the dogs. Now every ride over two hundred kilometres gets a page, written the evening after, before the details soften.

11 400km logged
34rides written up
6rear derailleurs

Recent

Three passes and a headwind that never turned

Left at four in the morning to beat the heat and spent the whole day being pushed backwards anyway. The third climb was the easy one, which tells you something about the first two.

The night ferry, and why I now carry two lights

A dynamo hub is a wonderful thing right up until the moment you stop moving in a tunnel.

Four hundred kilometres on a broken spoke

It held. I would not recommend finding out whether yours will.