The day was announced to be dry but cloudy. When I left in the AM it was around 6 degrees C and there was a bit of wind blowing from northwesterly directions. I wanted to do a long ride today so I set out towards Meldert and Hoegaarden to connect to the Ravel going to Namur. I followed the Ravel past Jodoigne and where it split up a little bit before Eghezee, I followed the track towards Perwez. I hadn't been here before so when I arrived in Perwez I wasn't sure which road to take to connect to Wavre. So I stopped and fiddled a bit with my Garmin to try and figure out where the road to Wavre was. I must have hit the stop button accidentally at this time. I ended up asking for directions to be sure and then followed the N243 towards Chaumont Gistoux and Wavre. In Thorembais-St-Trond I stopped to make a picture of a bovine triplet, standing in the middle of a turnaround.

The road towards Chaumont was a very solitary one, high up in the fields and at the mercy of the wind which was now blowing full in my face. I also noticed a couple of stray drops of rain. But when I arrived in Chaumont I had some more coverage from trees and houses but also some more hills to tackle. I rode on towards Basse Wavre and then to Gastuche. From here I made a little loop towards Dion and then crossed the N252 again to make my way towards Archennes and Florival. After Pecrot I rode towards Sint Agatha Rode and then Sint Joris Weert. On my way from Weert to the Zoete Waters I met Roger. He was also doing a ride and we stopped for a while to chat about the Summer and how we both wanted the Spring to arrive after a long and cold winter. He told me I should go for the full 100K and I decided to try. At the Zoete Waters I continued straight on towards Oud-Heverlee and then turned right into  Heverlee and climbed to the Pakenhof. Down towards the Geldenaaksebaan and then to the right towards Haasrode and Blanden. I did another loop over the Wijngaardberg and this yielded me the extra couple of K's to make it an even 100 today.
Unfortunately when I arrived home I noticed my Garmin had switched itself off. When I uploaded my track later I understood what had happened. In Perwez I had more or less 1h50 of riding time and there I must have hit the stop button. The Garmin doesn't record the speed anymore but it keeps recording the positional data for another 2 hours before switching itself off. This coincided exactly with the 3h50 mins of track I had for today. 85K and 645 heightmeters and an average speed of nearly 47kph!  Which is normal since the Garmin thinks I did all this in 1h50. Its a pity the last 15K are missing. But I still have the heightmeters from my Polar of course.

Ride Stats : 100K and 725 heightmeters (Polar) in 4h31mins

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