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Achievements

Cycled 233.1km
Crossed a border.

Expedition

Tracklog by bicycle

It was a bit cold in the morning, so when I left home at 9:05 I was wearing long tights and a jacket. At 11:20 I stopped to change pants and take the jacket off. I realized I left my sun lotion at home. It was very sunny and sunset is around 20:00. Nine hours in the sun will destroy my skin. Luckily I know that every German with a church and a pub also has a Schlecker, which is a drugstore. And since it was still well before noon it would also still be open!

At 11:45 I arrived in Riesenbeck where there was indeed a Schlecker. I bought sunprotectlotion and muesli bars. From here on the hills start. Around noon I left Riesenbeck. Everything went fairly good. There were two 25% descends (or that was what the sign claimed). Those are scary. Pull the brakes from the start and pray they'll hold. The second was a walking route and not a cycling route, and it had gravel bits. My rear wheel started to slip and bounce a bit, but I survived.

The hill to Tecklenburg started to be annoying. I was very hot and sweaty when I finally made it, and of course there's and immediate descend that cooled me off, probably a bit too much. From there I decided to go to Lengerich and on to the hash, so I would be there at 4pm. I managed that, but I was cold and nauseous.

The hash was at a dead end road leading to a house/farm. Nothing special there. I went back to Lengerich and from there on I would decide what I was going to do. I know Lengerich from the trip where I strained my ankle, I took the train from there then. I also know it was still 70km from there to home, shortest route. I cycled to the train station to see whether the pub against it was open. Sadly it wasn't. I noticed the phonebooth, since Ekorren mentioned one having the wrong color somewhere. I guess this was one of the newer ones. And a bit further there was one of the older types, but in the correct color. Only at home I found out the car in that picture has a Dutch license plate.

So, what was I going to do? I sure wasn't going to finish the Hillroute, but would I take the shortest route home, or take the way back to Riesenbeck as the route suggested? Since I didn't plan the short route and I was feeling slightly better, I went for the latter.

Except for the bit back into Tecklenburg that was fairly easy. I was rewarded with a broad view though, although it was a bit foggy/smoggy in the valley. And after that I set a new speed record: 80.00km/h downhill. The road was nice and I had a ladybird exploring my GPS.

After that it was just going on to get home. One more remarkable thing though: there was a cat in the middle of the bikelane, probably interested in some other animal, when it noticed me. It just stared how I approached at 28km/h or so, right at it. I steered past it, and at that moment it went through it's knees, like something would fly over or something (which I did, of course). I guess Darwin will take care of this cat next time. I arrived home at 21:05.

Tractor spraying... dust.
Really. I hope it doesn't kill me.
Typical german landmark.
Success!
X marks the spot. Bike in the background.
X marks the spot. I came from there.
Happy hasher with sunlotion on his face.
House just south of the hash. (nr24)
Hasher that used camera as mirror.
Really! With the faces and everything.
Time&date.
The hash was on the road to 23.
It was a dead end according to this sign.
Historical, see story.
Phone booth and stairs to traintracks.
Another phone booth in Lengerich. Hey. That's a dutch numberplate.
I came from down there.
I mean there. The sign says 12%
And just 100m further there was this viewpoint.
Landmark from the other side.
Wider view.
Ladybird. This was the best of 5 tries to make a proper picture of it. Of course I didn't stop cycling because of it.
The bike! I nearly forgot to take a picture of it.

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-What was it going to be? A pretty southeastern hash means 53 5 is reachable. But that one is in a canal. I could bring swimming gear, but night temperatures are still about 4°C and the water probably isn't a lot more than 8 or maybe 10°C. Common sense tells me not to try that.
-I also still haven't been to 52 5. What about that then? It's inside a national park with a 7 euro entrance fee. And I heard sunny saturdays are very crowded there. Since my money is pretty short... Sadly that also takes out 53 4. The hash was on Texel, but getting there would take 5 hours and somewhere between 50 and 60 euro for a return trip.
-Of course 52 6 is way too boring, since that is only 3 fields away from [[2009-04-13_52_6|last mondays hash]].
-Leaves 52 7. On a road. Reachable. Not very interesting. But! It is actually fairly close to the largest amount of hills in my neighbourhood, and I have found some gps-tracks in that area with promising names like "Teutoburger climbing route". [http://maps.google.nl/maps?q=http://gpstracks.nl/maps/f-duitsland-teutoburger-klimroute.kml Click] So lets combine (part) of one of those with the hash. Of course this hilly area only starts 60km east of where I live.
 ==Achievements==


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