Category: Cycling

Today I've learnt how beautiful it is to cycle with tailwind. And what a wonderful morning it was, with a temperature of 13 degrees, which let me cycle for the first time without wind jacket. I realised immediately that my pace was much faster, at around 21 km/h. I chose to stick with route 926, the so-called Itäpuolentie, as it […]

I left this morning with no big hurry from Kemi. The weather, like in the last days, has been unstable, but at the end of the day I got just a little bit of rain. Leaving the coastal road and heading towards Rovaniemi, the landscape changed accordingly: more up and downhill, which is not a problem as long as you […]

I wasn't supposed to travel too much today, and so did I: 20 km 🙂 After the first day, I thought it'd be wiser to relax a bit, thigh muscles are a bit in pain, although not as much as I thought. Two weeks ago I was walking on the mountains, and the next day also the muscles in the […]

Haluaisin sanoa, että ei tunnu missään, but since I'm writing these posts in English, I'll say something different. I left this morning from Oulu at around 9:45. I have to say that the hardest thing before leaving was what to take with me. I ended up packing five bags, plus tent, plus mattress, and I'm sure I'll give up something […]

Ok, maybe it's not like on a jet plane, but at least you're the one who drives! I'm leaving tomorrow morning for a temporally undetermined trip on my bike around Finland. The weather looks promising, the temperature a bit less (it's 8 right now, plus 8, not minus). However it's time to leave. I won't have a permanent place to […]