First Ride Round the Rigi

Village of Weggis (photo taken from Bürgenstock by Sacha Ban)

Today's ride was an easy 65km ride around the Rigi Mountain. Part of the ride is alongside the scenic 'Vierwaldstättersee', or for us English speakers 'The Lake of The Four Forest Cantons'.

The lake is one of the largest and prettiest lakes in Switzerland. If you don't feel like biking alongside it there are beautiful boat rides to be had up and down the 40km, mountain surrounded, lake.


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There are days I love living in Switzerland

Village of Illgau

There are days I love living in Switzerland. Yesterday was one of those days. It was my third ride of the year, and my first challenging ride. About 1000m of climbing, over 50kms, on a few roads I had never been on.

Good rides for me combine exploring. Yesterday I visited an alpine village - Illgau - that is about 30kms from here that I had never been to. That is part of what I love about Switzerland; the great opportunities for exploring by bike. Illgau is a little town at about 850m, on a cliffside up in a quiet valley.

Here's my ride (you'll see a big straight line where I turned off my GPS at one point - oops).

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Reflections on early season fitness

My wife and I did pretty much the same ride as I did earlier in the week; about 35 kms and 400 m climbing.

As we were biking down in the 'flatlands' I was looking up at the mountains we were biking last summer and reflecting on my present fitness level.

It is interesting to think the fitness level will be back up there again at some point this summer. I am wondering how long it'll be before I post a 70 km and 2000 m of climbing ride.