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The plan was to do this on Saturday, starting at 4:30AM, to end up with 400 something kms around sundown.
Annoyingly, the ride ended for me after a triple puking session over the last 40 kms. Probably caused by the tuna melt bagel and ginger beer I had in Amsterdam, on top of many energy bars, maltodextrin/sport nutrition drink and raisin buns :-/
Maybe I should have eaten a little less all in all, but I didn't want to risk bonking as it's nigh impossible to keep up with the calories burning away. In hindsight, bonking probably wouldn't have felt so bad. My companion Ed escorted me to the nearest train station and carried on solo, he finished with 430kms around 10PM, class. Better luck next June, hopefully.
The ride was nice though! So lovely to start so early and see nature (or whatever's left of that in NL) wake up, great to ride along the Veluwe National Park and over the dam between Lelystad & Enkhuizen, along the IJsselmeer to Amsterdam, probably bagged the most dike kms in any ride ever.
Lost 2 kg body weight because of not being able to eat or drink for 5 hours after the ride but managed to compensate that later on and yesterday. Funny my legs weren't even completely 'gone', had no problems doing a swift messenger shift this morning, so all good in the end.
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