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After doing one of my first bikepacking trips (🏠 Home to Ljubljana 🇸🇮) I’ve just feel that was the moment to try to cycle between the place where I lived form the last years and where I was born. I set it up as an adventure for the next spring and waited for the warm enough weather to come.
The adventure scores in all the important aspects that drives me; social fitness, physical fitness and mental fitness.
I’ve ridden this adventure together with Mathieu, so it was a nice experience to share. Initially Stefan wanted to ride together but the dates did not work and Laura and Yves wanted to join the first day, but starting on a week-day did not help.
It was good test to see how we survive 6 days in a row together with little time for ourselves, although when we were in main roads or drafting each other, we were one behind another.
Despite riding with Mathieu we met people along the way, from riders who joined us, waiters who felt curious about where we were coming or going, and the hosts of some airbnb who usually asked…; and where are the batteries of the bike 😏.
We spend long time on the bike day by day. In average about 12h per day, which challenged our asses🍑, our necks, our achilles tendons. However, we had very good feeding 🍽️ in the evenings and a good bed to sleep 🛏️ which helped to push hard day after day.
We had pleasant weather 🌤️, however when we arrived to Spain, we had to face a bit the heat.
Doing the same for 6 days in a row and keeping focus on the road for 12h each day trains your brain to stay focus. Landscape is different every day, from mountainous Alps in Switzerland and France to the coast of France and Spain. We experienced different languages, food
This ride was as a preparation of Transbalkanrace 2022 🇸🇮🇭🇷🇧🇦🇲🇪 | DNF ❌️, we wanted to spend long hours on the bike, but still enjoy the good things of a bikepacking trip.
🏡to🏠 has been a blast 💨. 6 days to complete 1204 kms with a bit more of 6000m ⬆️.