Cycling – Timasoara – Plains – Hills – Cluj Napoca

So. My Garmin has given up, although not permanently. The charger adapter didn’t make it’s way to me. That means my journeys and their relative stats aren’t being tracked.

In a way, it’s made it less important to update the blog on a daily basis.

There’s no record of the rides. I’ve not really been bothered to update the blog accordingly.

Timasoara onto the plains

Coming out of the city the first day and 1/2 was on the plains. These gave way to hills. A group of which I decided to take a short-cut across, as it cut about 20 miles or so off the ride.

Up and out
Up and out

Turns out it wasn’t a road, more of a track for loggers and the odd householder who lived up there.

Approaching from the South, as it took on the houses that decided to live out in the woods, it was all fine and dandy. As the incline became steeper, the nicely graveled byway became rocky, puddly and nasty. I ended up spending most of the day standing of the pedals avoiding rocks and puddles.

Woodland scene
Woodland scene

I think it climbed for about 20km. Eventually, I reached the peak and it started to come back down.

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