Swift local ride

On the weekend i try to get some time for a ride with some bigger distance. This weekend this was not possible. So in the 1,5 hour that is given me, i tried to push it on speed instead on volume or ditance. Directly outside the door it's possible to keep that 10m height per km ratio. So Krekelberg, Zandberg, Keldenaar, Stammenhof, Sweikhuizen, Hegge, Schurenberg, Zandbergsweg in short distance from each other is a challenge. It is not the most amazing in hight and diffculty/steepness, but pushing the speed makes everything challenging. Crossing the blue route of Limburgs mooiste of this year a few times, i thought that i would see a lot of riders. But this is not the truth, it was late enough in the day to have a quiet ride.
I liked it that 'Limburg mooiste' knows that they don't have to use the deep south for good and beautiful riding, also around Puth and Schinveld it's worth a tour!

As often when i didn't ride a hill for some longer time, i was making the climbs bigger and steeper in my mind. So most hills actually went very well, the new bike feels i am going easier, and only Stammenhof was a bit much. Seeing that i PR'd on 18 out of 24 sgements i had a succes in speeding the climbs.
The nice Sweikhuizerberg was a good challenge and i could shout to myself and collect some energy out of the upcoming thrill at the start, keep a  good average pace and felt i did a good climb. Keeping the speed also inbetween the climbs was what put the average speed on a surprising good level for me. But considering that this is an avarage speed many cyclers can keep up four 3 times this distance, i still feel like a really small fish in the cyclingpond.

After Hegge it was the question with the deadline i had, if it was possible to get 40km in the bucket but still arrive home on time. So i opted for some local small hills in Hoensbroek: Schurenberg and Zandbergsweg. Trying those with some max speed was a thrill, and good for training i guess.

So even without a big ride i had fun and a good endorfine feeling at the end. But still i hope to ride 100k this year a few times. Getting to Bornheim via the Eifel and maybe 2 days of MH2D could be 2 of my goals this year. We see what happens.