I’d made a 19 km route earlier this week, but hadn’t ridden this full stretch before, even on a bicycle, so it was exploration of a completely new route, while also making it my longest ever unicycling ride. For these longer rides, one needs to mentally prepare for the hours in the saddle and not the actual distance, as 19 km doesn’t sound like a lot at all, for instance on a bike. However, this distance corresponds to around 3 hours of saddle time, and that’s what I’d prepared for. I’d taken a lot of water in my hydration bag, and drank most of it. It was close to 2200 hrs when I finished, and the sun had already gone down, so it was dusk. The energy levels seem to drop with the light, and finishing in the dusk was a bit of a challenge, but I kept at it and was very happy when I made it back home, a shade under three hours after I’d started the ride. I know know that I can push on for three hours or more, and will continue to increase the distances gradually, and just by a little each time, so I get used to spending more and more time in the saddle.

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