The Vosges Mountains - The Sportiest Easter I Ever Had
This Easter weekend I've spent my days somewhat different than usual. Normally, I use the Easter weekend to visit my family and friends and have lots of food.
Well, I decided that this year I would spend it in the Vosges mountains in France. Not just to enjoy the weather and the mountains, but to cycle! In order to get into shape for a six-day cycling race in Austria that will take place in about a month from now, I've spent four days cycling through this beautiful mountain range!
Day 1:
The first day we've spent about four hours on the bike to tackle roughly 90 kilometers including two climbs with a total combined height of 1800+ height meters. The roads and view were perfect!
Me conquering one of the climbs.
Day one route
Day 2:
The second day I could already feel my legs from the day before! I was a bit worried about making it all four days... Well, the second day we pushed a little harder nonetheless by covering roughly 100 kilometers including again two climbs with a total combined height of 2200 height meters.
One of my cycling buddies and me arriving at the top of the first climb.
We even encountered a bunch of snow along the way!
Day two route
Day 3:
Luckily the second day, I took it a bit easier such that I was in better shape for day three! As you might expect by now, we further pushed ourselves. On day three we conquered 4 climbs. Although all we somewhat smaller, they combined to roughly 110 kilometers with a total combined height of 2300 height meters. Here are some pictures and my riding stats:
Me fighting the hills with some great view!
Day three route
Day 4:
As you can imagine, after three days of cycling, we were slowly getting fatigued! In addition to that, we were supposed to drive home on this last day. We decided to take it easy with only 50 kilometers of cycling and a total combined height of 1000 height meters. This day was a lot of fun! The weather was the best so far and the climbs we did were beautiful with hardly any car traffic! We did encounter some more snow this time though!
Me walking through the snow
Some panoramic view along the way
Day four route
All in all, over the four days we covered a distance of 350 kilometers and about 7500(!) height meters. I'm pretty happy with this result. But, most of all, I had lots of fun enjoying this together with my friends!
I hope you guys had a great Easter weekend too! Thanks for dropping by!
Cheers // Michel
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