biking from belfast to dublin! day 1 of 2! #bikepacking #biketravel #adventuretravel #cycling

biking from belfast to dublin! day 1 of 2! #bikepacking #biketravel #adventuretravel #cycling #cyclist

today we’re biking a little over halfway from Belfast to Dublin we had to pump some air in our tires this morning and then we hit the road we knew today was going to be a long day so tried to keep the mind at ease for the first part of the day and not get too caught up in like the big distance that we had to do today we hopped back on a cycle route and luckily the first like 25 miles of the day were super easy and just like flew by but then the wind picked up pretty significantly we had like 40 mph gusts and pretty strong wind regardless of the gust just like steady state i don’t know what you call it um and it was super unpleasant made the miles really really challenging and it was pretty unfortunate because it was like flat riding um we were on a toe path so we had a really nice path to ride and yeah it made something that should have been super easy pretty challenging and that kind of just like sucks your energy when you feel like you should be moving faster and you’re just like struggling along we stopped for a late lunch like 48 miles into the day and after that the wind got a little bit better it was like half of what we were dealing with before so that made the back half of the day feel a lot easier but we were still just like not moving that quickly and the sun set a bit earlier than we were used to and so we had to ride a couple of hours in the dark which is like never my favorite thing i feel like the cars are just a little bit scarier at night but we had our headlamps and our backlights so it was all good we made it to our warm showers host chatted for a bit and then went to bed