This morning I had an appointment with my friend Roger to ride the Accro Bike - or parts of it. Unfortunately when Roger arrived at my place it had started raining. I'm not too fond of starting out in the rain plus I still felt tired from yesterdays' ride. So Roger had to ride on his own, since he could not ride in the evening - the weather forecast called for drizzle in the morning and the early afternoon with dryer weather coming in later in the day. After the Tour de France finish I checked Meteox for the current rain forecast and all looked clear. Around 5pm I rode out, very careful to warm up my sore legs. When I arrived in Grez-Doiceau I set on the Accro Bike track in the reverse direction. The rain didn't leave to many puddles, except for some place in the forest. The weather was still overcast so visibility was not high under the leaves either making some parts very dangerous ro ride.
I already had decided to make some detours around a few known 'bad' spots in the course, and I had to walk on some of the downhills. Partly because they were very slippery - my Nokian NBX are great tyres but they reach their limits when it is really slippery clay - but also because some of the trails were so washed out I had to lift the bike over some of the gullies. I also tried out a new alternative for the hill next to the Bercuit golf circuit. This is a private road and it has some gullies that make biking through impossible. When it is dry I have an alternative in the forest but when it has rained that is impossible to ride either because of some deep puddles filling up with water and forcing you to walk around them. So I took another way around which consisted of a tarmac road that turned into a cobble road and then into an offroad track. It doesn't make any difference in height meters so it is a viable alternative. Because of my late starting hour I was anxiously looking at the clock but as it turned out I had more than enough time to make the complete lap. In fact I was very relaxed since my average heartrate was only 108bpm with a maximum of 141bpm on one of the climbs. I never forced it and got on the piccolo very fast to spare my legs. Even then I was glad to see that I almost averaged 18kph and 16kph on the Accro Bike lap itself.
Ride Stats : 65K and 935 heightmeters in 3h42mins
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