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Category: Cycling
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A lap of Ringvaart – Rode 63.80km
Today I took out my time trial bike and did a lap of Ringvart – that is ride of 63.80 Km. It is a circular road, just follow the canal and you get back to where you started.
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Bike Ride from Groningen to Amsterdam – 206.14 Km
Today I changed my approach, I took a train in the morning to Groningen, on arrival I took off on my bike towards Amsterdam, on the ride I pass through Assen, Meppel, Kampen, Dronten, and Almere.
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Arnhem to Amsterdam – 122.50 km
Last year I did Amsterdam to Arnhem – today I did the reverse, took the train to Arnhem and biked back to Amsterdam. Beautiful day, had a great bike ride, still have problems with using mobile to navigate, have to stop to get the direction. I tried with a Samsung Galaxy III to use Google…
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Amsterdam – Goes – 197.98 Km
My plan for today was to ride to Vlissingen, instead, I ended up in Goes, this was due to some navigation issues I did in Scharendijke on Zeeland and after my iPhone had run out of battery. Instead of heading towards Middleburg. I went in another direction ending up in Zierikzee, luckily to me the…
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Amsterdam to Enkhuizen – 68.86km
Today’s decision was to do a “one direction” bike ride, a one direction bike ride is that I go in one direction and take the train back. The direction I decide to go in depends on if I training to go with a headwind or with the wind in the back. Today’s ride was wind…
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Lap south of Amsterdam towards Utrecht – 103.90 km
Windy day, not sure what direction I would go, started off going down towards Hoofddorp, the changed direction towards Aalsmeer and Uithoorn. Overall a good ride and workout, tried to do tempo, was hard in the end when I had a head wind.
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Training – Monday to Friday – my daily routine is 50 km
During the week from Monday to Friday, I cycle a total of 50 Km daily, it is divided into sessions of 25 km. The morning session is an easy ride – mostly spinning on a low gear at 90 rpm – the evening ride is a mix of tempo one day, sprints another day high…
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Increasing the duration of the bike rides – 94.62 Km
Start increasing the length of the long rides, took my time trial bike and went along the North Sea Canal to IJmuiden, down towards Bloemendaal – to Zandvoort, over the dunes to Keukenhof back home. IT was a warm sunny day, the cycle ride was great, felt very good with the sun and warm weather.…
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A time trial around Hoofddorp – 61.18 Km
This was not a fun day, lots of military checks around Hoofddorp due to the visit of Obama and other dignitaries for the Nuclear Security Summit in Den Haag. I was not allowed to pass over the A4 south of Schiphol Airport – so I had to take another route that was open and let…
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A ride around Hoofddorp – 56.69 Km
Today I had an easy ride around Hoofddorp, did it on my time trial bike, it was a windy day not much of fun.