So now that I found the Havel Park and its glorious folds and mixed coniferus and deciduous rolls I have been trekking the 45 mins west to ride it (image). The route is quite nice, gently rolling along a well wooded autobahn so the affect is wind tunnel that easily drags me there with my top gear spun out. I have been riding a 42x19 single speed so top gear isnt exactly the same as with a 12 in the back (image). There is lots of water (image) on the route and it makes me want to get this floating boat I saw at a bike shop that you can mount your bike on and turn an underwater propeller with the cranks. The actual Havel park loop is 23 kilometers and its all double, single track or gravel (image). Today I ended up at Seeburg where there was a castle ruin made of big glacial till boulders that housed a gated old well. So i put in back to back 3 hour days at tempo and above riding out there, felt great. Sat and sunday i went to the nearer gruhn wald (images on former posts) and did some hill repeats sunday that I think set me up to feel good today and tomorrow...going to try and push a third day tomorrow of equal length but lower intensity if I can recover and eat enough tonight! I am stoked to be heading down to the hills next weekend and am going to try and taper off starting early next week, ride into the event Friday and have a night preride, recover saturday and eat, then throw down.
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