High pressure and sunshine and a stiff southern breeze. With temperatures soaring into the 20 degrees C I rode out in the late afternoon with my Litespeed Obed. I wanted to do a relaxed ride so I stuck to big forest roads and some tarmac to bring me towards Mollendaal. 2.5K of cobbles later I was near Beauvechain and looking on my Garmin screen to plot a way back towards Hamme Mille. Crossing the N25 and then onwards to Nethen where I entered the Meerdael Forest again, climbing up to the plateau. Along the Herculesdreef and then right on the Jamaica and Platanen dreef I came to the Weertse Dreef. Following that towards the forest edge and here I took a right and a left t check if the grazers were still on their winter meadow. They were. Onwards into the Kouterbos for a quick down/up loop. Over Vaalbeek I finished my ride with a good and relaxed feeling in my legs. With an average heartrate of 106bpm this was an easy recovery ride.

Ride Stats : 34.5K and 395 heightmeters (Garmin) in 01h34mins

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