February 3rd, 2007 | categorizilation: all categories,Turkey
Today’s distance / 今日の走行距離: 44.88km
Average speed / 平均速度: 10.2km/h
Time on bike / 走行時間: 4h 23m
Total distance to date / 今日までの積算距離: 3025.3km (plus 4200km)
Ascent / 上り: +1620m
Descent / 下り: -1575m
Inhumane, I tell you, inhumane! The Black Sea coast of Turkey has the most unrelentingly steep and numerous short uphills of any road I have cycled ever. Over a distance of only 45kms, I had a cumulative total of 1620m vertical metres climbed. I tried in vain to capture the steepness on my camera.
I was tempted to carry on to make it 2,000m, but Amasra was too inviting to miss…
I don’t really have much more to say other than today was tough work.
Pitched the tent on the marina.
Even steeper than the roads up and down Banks Peninsula?
I thought the uphills would be a breeze by now. You must be used to them!
Aunty Lyn and Aunty Les, the uphills are not of this world. The Banks Penninsula slopes pale in comparison.