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Previous Day (Day 9) 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 [...]
Previous day, Day 8 — Next day, Day 10 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 [...]
Previous day, Day 7 Part 2 — Next day, Part 9 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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]