D-day finally arrived and we woke up to a beautiful day, and still half asleep we drove from our summer-house to the city of Motala to start our day of biking. As we are sitting in the car, talking away first our mother and then my dear sister realized that they didn’t bring the keys for the little bike locks! I don’t know what thoughts ran through my mind, I think that most of them weren’t real nice at all and I was wondering if they would be able to start at all.
It turned out that our aunts boyfriend have potential as a bike thief, he managed to get both the locks open without a key using only different types of tools. I now understand why I get so many bikes stolen, if it’s so easy for an unexperienced (I hope) person to open the locks, then imagine how easy it is for someone who practice!
Thus, we all made it to the starting point, with bikes, and this how happy we looked then;
While biking there are so many places where you want to stop and take pictures, the nature is just so beautiful in this area, unfortunately we are there to complete a race rather than playing paparazzi so there aren’t that many pictures available. We have this one from the first depot stop, I think that we are still looking pretty fresh;
I don’t seem to have a photo of both of us after reaching the goal line, I promise that both of us did complete the full race! We have diplomas and all to prove it.
I was also amazed that my poor little cellphone had enough battery power to keep Endomondo going the whole time, and I was even more amazed to see that it didn’t actually measure 100k – a tad disappointing.
The whole affair was later in the evening celebrated with some bubbly at the summer-house;
And at least I have decided to do it again next year, it is a bit painful while you are at it, but damn you feel good once you reach that goal!
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