I completed my longest ride yet over the first half of Golden Week (starting a few days early). I left Shimonoseki (at the SW corner of Honshu) shortly before 9PM on April 26, and 1667.22km later reached Cape Oma (Omazaki) just before 2PM on May 1. That is 5 days and 17 hours later. I rode the Pelso, so the route was designed to be as flat and direct as practical, at the expense of riding a number of major, congested roads. (Routes 2, 4, 7, 8 among others, though not in that order). I rode the first few segments as much as practical at night.
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| At Omazaki - furthest North point of Honshu |
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| Better view of the bike -- Pelso Brevet. |
A few days later, starting on April 29, Jerome joined the Tokyo Randonneurs' similar ride for around 40-50 randonneurs. They took a somewhat hillier and less direct route (1900kms) than mine, and it took about one day longer.
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| Jerome along the Akita coast with Mifune-san |
I will add some details of the ride in subsequent posts.
Here are the maps of my 5 "days" as uploaded to Strava.
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| Day 1 |
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| Day 2 |
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| Day 3 |
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| Day 4 Part 1 |
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| Day 4 Part 2 |
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| Day 5 Part 1 |
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| Day 5 Part 2 |
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| Day 6 stub |
Continued posts:
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