Evening ride (the parkstadroute still is alive!)

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The classic evening ride of the season. I found the signed route a few years ago. The small hexagonal signs were old and i thought the route was not maintained anymore. But to my surprise on places the signs were wailing last year, i see new signs again! cool that the city is making an effort to keep this nice round intact. It's a bike route on the border of Heerlen with a lot of parks and forests to cross and pass by. Just how to show how green parkstad Heerlen is. You also pass a few nice castles.

Today i wanted to push it a bit to try to do a good average. I succeeded. Climbing was still not as i hoped although i made some good sprints on some short hills. I extended the route around the Brunssummerheide to have a nice evening view. I tried this version also last year as my first ride, and it was something different!

This evening it was amazingly nice, good weather. All in all a lovely ride and a good training exercise.