{"id":2479,"date":"2014-12-29T18:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopcycling.pl\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2024-12-10T09:28:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T09:28:38","slug":"swieta-z-the-festive-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopcycling.pl\/en\/swieta-z-the-festive-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint from The Festive 500"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"Oh mother tell your children<\/em><\/h2>\n

Not to do what I have done "<\/em><\/h2>\n

The Animals<\/em><\/p>\n

Christmas with The Festive 500 (# Rapha500<\/em>)<\/h1>\n

[dropcaps type = \u201dtype1 \u2033] In [\/ dropcaps] this year I went with a bike to traditional, family ski holidays. I have become weatherproof and the potential lack of snow is no longer a worry. Somewhere in the back of the head I was guided by last year's Festive 500, a challenge organized by Strava and Rapha (colloquially called Rafa\u0142), whose completion last year I envied my friends so much. Few, but still. The first day ahead is 20 km of running around Krakow, the next is over 4 hours of skiing in Ma\u0142y Cichy and 60 km pass by glitching around Gliczar\u00f3w and Z\u0105b. Having made sure that all 3 sports are cool, but crossing the asphalt is the coolest, I decided to do the task - 500 km in a week. Big mistake.<\/p>\n

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Day 1: Tatras made of thick pipe.<\/h2>\n

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[dropcaps type = \u201dtype1 \u2033] L [\/ dropcaps] ekko already tired, even though the party is just starting I look out the window and see the darkness. Gray, bleak and gloomy, but it doesn't rain. He learned from experience that if it is bad with us, then in Slovakia it must be great to start from Ma\u0142y Ciche through Bukowina via the Tatry Tour route. The kilometers are going slowly because the crossroads are not a highway. Like driving on asphalt, but after 3 hours I look at my watch, it turns out that one and some 20km have passed. With time the sun comes out and I go to Smokovec like on vacation. Then there is the drama - the sun melts the snow, which immediately freezes. The wind causes me to slow down to single-digit speeds and my goal is to just get to Strbski Ples, where I will shoot the usual photo from the hotel with a level and return home. As the old cycling proverb says: "it's never so bad that it couldn't be worse" - the surface changes. Plain asphalt crushed quite richly with gravel, replaces plain ice and snow. The wheel boxes in place. Coming back an hour later I discover that the descent is even more difficult. As a remembrance, I recorded a film for posterity - it was just as good to be skating (the fully applied rear brake does not change anything). Then it's standard. 150km in the mountains, doing cross-country tires, I see the next days thinly. Legs are burning a little. Just like frosts.<\/p>\n


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