My best before that was about 70 km lol. I packed a bunch of granola bars, isotonics, bought more on the way. Did it with two, more experienced, friends. The whole ride took me 11 hours flat (started at 5:30 finished 16:30). It was rough at some points, especially near the end, in headwind. But I did it and I'm super proud of myself. My legs hurt a bit today but nothing too serious.
Van Rysel GRVL AF, northern Poland, along the coast of Baltic Sea. I'd say our route was 50/50 asphalt and gravel (wide unpaved routes in forest).
Edit: forgot to add that while I don't do much long distance riding, I commute to work 11 km each way, with a decent climb one way (about 350150 m elevation gain over few km's) so I didn't just attempt almost 200 km out of the blue lol.
by makos124
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I‘m super proud of you. You proof that you don’t need a 5 figure bike.
Do you have more pictures to share?
How did you feel the day after?
Heck yeah, that’s a great feat! Good job! 👍
My first long ride was also to the Polish seaside, from Poznan. Rode a bit on V10 as well. Great memories except it rained the entire time and my cassette had to be replaced as the rain washed out the wax after the first 100km or so and I was too unexperienced to realize xd
Sounds an awesome ride and something I would like to do too do you have a strava route?
the climb to work sounds more than decent lol, how many % it is
Almost a century /s.