My trip is fractionned in 4 days.
Ljubljana -> Kranj 46,4km 720m up 660m down
Kranj -> Lake Bled -> Lake pohinj 59,5km 690m up
Lake pohinj -> Mojstrana 42,5km 620m up 540m down
Mojstrana -> Ljubljana 74,3km 410 up 750m down
I did the first day yesterday and now I'm almost in Bled. Stopped at a café waiting the rain to settle down a little.
I stay in Hostels so I brought the bare minimum in clothing and stuff.
Yesterday was ROUGH. Going all the way up 720m in one go, with a heavier bike than I have at home, with my backpack and a sidebag. But I enjoyed it a lot. The weather was nice. The hostel was nice, I socialized with the french girls in my room and a little with a German group. And also with the handler in the morning, he was nice. Coming from a social anxious boy I'm glad it turned out that way.
I changed my course today because I realised it was insane (1300m up).
I don't know how you people that carry heavier stuff do when the climb is that hard tbh.
Also I have some climbing planned tomorrow morning, gonna use my upper body a little. I hope I I'll not be too exhausted lol.
Here are a picture of my bike and my first day (I didn't record the beginning).
by Agriandra
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Enjoy our country.
Regarding how people manage big climbing days, it’s all about fitness and preparation. When you train and can manage 3000-4000m of altitude on a road bike in a day, then 1500m of altitude fully packed is easy. But it comes with hours and hours in the saddle. If you can only manage up to 800, don’t think that’s a failure, just your current fitness limitations and that’s okay – not everyone wants (or has time to) spend so much time training, and you can still have amazing time bikepacking more flat regions or avoid big hills.
I plan to do Slovenian western loop in July, I saw there is more than 9000m of elevation so I’ll pack super light, hope it will be ok.