Day 10
???, Yamagata - Fukushima, Fukushima
Distance: 94.89 km
Average: 20.5 km/h
Max: 50.1 km/h
Total Distance: ~836.02 km

Final day (finally writing the last one of these).
I woke up, packed up, and headed out. The weather wasn’t quite as rainy today; it switched back and forther between clear and a light rain, but I still kept my rain coat [...]

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Day 9
Niigata, Niigata - ???, Yamagata
Distance: ~130 km
Average: n/a
Max: n/a
Total Distance: ~745 km

On the morning of Day 9 I was planning on leaving where I had spent the night, the internet cafe, at around five in the morning, which is when the overnight package deal I had purchased there expired. I was also planning on [...]

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Day 8
Niigata, Niigata
Distance: ~45 km
Average: n/a
Max: n/a
Total Distance: ~615 km

The above figure of 45 km of cycling for the day actually ended up being quite a surprise for me when I checked my odometer at the end of the day. If this had been a regular day, that would have been quite short, but the [...]

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Due to so much happening during Day 7, I’m going to split this up into two entries. If you want to read the first part, head on over to Day 7 Part 1
Stats are for the whole of Day 7, not just Part 2.
Day 7, Part 2
??? - Niigata, Niigata
Distance: ~30 km of cycling
Average: n/a
Max: [...]

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Due to so much happening during Day 7, I’m going to split this up into two entries.
Day 7, Part 1
Tadami, Fukushima - ???
Distance: ~11 km
Average: n/a
Max: n/a
Total Distance: ~547 km (the distance on the map below is a typo and I don’t currently have Photoshop installed to fix it)

Today I once again woke up bright [...]

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So much for posting these updates every other day, eh?
Day 6
Tajima, Fukushima - Tadami, Fukushima
Distance: 61.76 km
Average: 19.5 km/h
Max: 62.1 km/h
Total Distance: 539.10 km

By the time I woke up in my hotel bed in Tajima, I knew that today was going to be a pretty short day. I was a lot further along than planned, [...]

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Day 5
Nasushiobara, Tochigi - Tajima, Fukushima
Distance: 82.90 km
Average: 20.3 km/h
Max: 59.2 km/h
Total Distance: 475.62 km

Due to the cold and rain I barely got any sleep this past night. I ended up spending close to four or five hours in my hammock just listening to music on my mp3 player. Finally once the sun started to [...]

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Day 4
Daigo, Ibaraki - Nasushiobara, Tochigi
Distance: 81.67 km
Average: 17.6 km/h
Max: 67.8 km/h
Total Distance: 392.41 km

By today the signs of being tired set in. There were lots of mountains to go over, compounded with the first three days’ work catching up to me, and it all adds up to Day 4 having the slowest average riding [...]

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Day 3
Iwaki, Fukushima - Daigo, Ibaraki
Distance: 103.81 km
Average: 18.0 km/h
Max: 59.4 km/h
Total Distance: 310.74 km

The highlight of my ride today was a driver of a car blaring her horn at me while I was in a turn lane waiting to turn. I got pissed. Nothing happened, and as usual the real fun for the day [...]

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Day 2
Minamisoma, Fukushima - Iwaki, Fukushima
Distance: 121.27
Average: 20.3 km/h
Max: 57.5 km/h
Total Distance: 206.92 km

Today was one of those rare days where there weren’t too terribly many mountains to go over. It was largely going down the eastern coast of Fukushima, along the shore of the Pacific. Looking at a map you’d think that would be [...]

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