2023-10-14/15 Flight Transfer to the airport was easy and smooth, as we only had to take a short taxi trip from near the airport. Flight took with 13h a little bit longer than usual, due to the unfortunate geopolitical situation, but it was still bearable with the upcoming trip in our minds. The food from Michelin star restaurant “Yang Ming
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2019-09-12 Start: 11:15 / Arrival: 16:30 Distance: 52km / Gained height 300 hm Got breakfast at the mall again and then left for a transfer to Sapporo. Transfer was okay, but with heavy headwinds…. Also for the first time passed so much broken glass, very uncommon for Japan. Strange, but no flats. The magical moment came when approaching Sapporo. Left
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2019-09-08 Start: 08:45 / Arrival: 19:30 Distance: 142km / Gained height 1150 hm Earliest start until now. But needed, as this was quite a challenge climbing up to 850m, over quite some distance. Legs felt a little bit tired in the beginning, but this was my sort of climb. 60km just going up. Very rural areas, no exit point for getting
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2019-09-06 Start: 12:00 / Arrival: 20:00 Distance: 32km / Gained height 250 hm Very late start as there was no hurry on this rest day. Had a cigarette on the terrace of the farm, spoke to Mama about the food she is preparing and then went of for downtown. Got breakfast from the mall, including delicious umeboshi. Had it at the river in
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2019-09-02 Start: 12:45 / Arrival: 20:30 Distance: 80km / Gained height 1010 hm What a day. Had a very late start due to the “Reiseleiter” (being me, running joke) having to sleep longer due to my nice evening yesterday. Before we started, met Chad from Chicago again, whom got to know already yesterday at the convenience store. Very nice guy – he was
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2019-08-28 Start: 12:15 / Arrival: 17:45 Distance: 40km / Gained height 200 hm Weather is so unstable and unpredictable here – just starting of and see how it will evolve is the way to go. Today was in this respect a somehow unlucky day. First everything looked okay – although being quite hangover from yesterday’s karaoke. But then fizzy rain evolved
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2019-08-27 Start: 11:00 / Arrival: 19:15 Distance: 95km / Gained height 550 hm Chitose is Hokkaidos main airport, so we had to pass it after breakfast. Not so nice to ride, but this was followed by long straight roads cycling head down…not too exciting but really nice to ride. Point of interest was today the Pacific which we reached after
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2019-08-26 Start: 11:15 / Arrival: 18:30 Distance: 94km / Gained height 890 hm Left Lake Toya and had a long but smooth climb up over to Lake Shikotsu at the same named national park. Rural area, with good weather this was a pleasant way up there. On the way something weird stang me in the finger, short and strong local pain
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2019-08-24 Start: 10:00 / Arrival: 16:45 Distance: 65km / Gained height 1150 hm Forecast was uncertain, so we were as well – even tought about another rest day. Projected was heavy rain, not the best circumstances for passing a mountain with 650m of height. Decided to give it a try as we needed to make some progress. In the beginning
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2019-08-21 Start: 10:00 / Arrival: 14:15 Distance: 36km / Gained height 367 hm Forecast for the day was heavy rain and it was right. While getting breakfast at the convenience store it already started. Still ok for riding, but we didn’t know how it will be during later the day. Planned for today was 100km with loads of height meters
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