Distance: 110.28 km Ride time: 5:41:28 Average: 19.37 km/h Max speed: 51.68 km/h Total: 34084 km The days are getting more and more monotonous out here on the flat pampas towards Cartagena. It was one of these days where it was all about reaching the 100 km mark and finding a place to sleep rather [ Read More ]
Distance: 124.35 km Ride time: 6:23:12 Average: 19.46 km/h Max speed: 48.42 km/h Total: 33974 km I was expecting this part of Colombia to be flat. Well, I’m certainly not in the middle of the Andes mountains anymore, but the whole day I was doing steep micro climbs and descends. Each climb might only 500 [ Read More ]
I’m planning to meet friends in Cartagena in a week from now. Since I’m only 350 km away from the Caribbean coast I’m a couple of days ahead of schedule. A rest day in Caucasia was in order then. The hotel I had found last night was cheap but noisy. A disco next door was [ Read More ]
Distance: 108.48 km Ride time: 5:14:56 Average: 20.66 km/h Max speed: 50.23 km/h Total: 33849 km For the first time since leaving Cali, today’s stage was a flat one. The next couple of days I will be following the mighty Cauca river towards Cartagena. Compared to cycling in the mountains this means that several things [ Read More ]
Distance: 107.92 km Ride time: 5:04:12 Average: 21.28 km/h Max speed: 61.43 km/h Total: 33741 km When I left Medellin yesterday I thought my route would be a busy highway towards Cartagena. The road might be the most direct route, but it is certainly still very much a local route. As I walked across the [ Read More ]
Distance: 84.36 km Ride time: 5:27:22 Average: 15.46 km/h Max speed: 52.18 km/h Total: 33633 km Leaving Medellin I thought I had already completed most of the remaining climbing in the Andes mountains before descending towards the Caribbean coast. That was not really the case. After cycling through 30 km of rather ugly Medellin suburbs [ Read More ]
I first met British Around the World Cyclist Neil in Peru last year. Now our ways would cross again in Medellin. The days included a fair amount of beer and a healthy dose of British humour – for some reason there was a lot of British people at our hostel. I didn’t realized I had [ Read More ]
Distance: 79.05 km Ride time: 5:05:23 Average: 15.53 km/h Max speed: 49.31 km/h Total: 33528 km It was still early in the day when I got this message from Neil, the British Round The World Cyclist already at a hostel in Medellin: “I’ve reserved you the last bed but if you don’t turn up I [ Read More ]
