Day 1: storm and horse meadow

I am back form 300 km unicycling in 3 days. In my previous blog I sead I was gonna do 400 km in 4 days, but plans changed because of different reasons.

Day 1: Storm and horse meadow

Let’s start with the first day. I started at 8 in the morning with my backpack, unicycle, 100mm cranks and 2 fully charged phones. I would do 134km.

It went well, I had some offroad and hills to do, but I dit them. After 51km, I left the Czech Republic and I went further in Germany. When I had to do 35 km, I had to do a long uphill and that was a little bit to much. But I got over it and the next uphill was easyer.

At around 4pm my first phone had 5% and I swiched to the phone without sim. I had to do less then 15 km. After a steap down hill (10km to do) it began to storm… It was raining verry hard and super windy. So I went in an open garage of an abandoned hotel. But afer 10 minutes it looked like it wouldn’t get better soon, so I went on.

Or not… Google maps was sending me next via a closed off horse meadow. Ok, there were no horses, so I went through expecting to find a path or something. But it went into buches… The map on my phone wasn’t loading for this area, so I couldn’t look for an other route.

On the other site of the river (Saale) was a bikepath, it was the only road in the correct direction, so I took it. It was flat, so it went fast. Untill there was a road block: half a tree was laying in front of me. It was still storing and it just happend… That’s scary!

I went past it and asked some fire-fighters for the route, but they didn’t know… But I was in a small town and thought that I would first eat there something and charge my phone with internet. But the only restaurant there was, was full of water… (that was one of the reasons there were fire-fighters)

Someone at a hotel told me the route, so I started climbing, and climbing… And than I was… in a place that he didn’t say I would go through… At this moment I thought that my phone with internet wasn’t fully out of battery. So I started It back up and searched my route… 14 km. I gave my other phone wifi and searched the route… 8km?? And then my phone (with 4g) was out of battery. I had the route! (and I didn’t thought about the 6km in difference)

8km later, I was there!! Only the youth hostel wasn’t… A man saw me searching and asked me what I was searching. He knew what I was searching, and wanted to bring me with the car. The only problem was that he had drunk alcohol already that night… he took me to the cafe and asked the boss if he could help. Solution: a worker could leave earlier and would take me to the youth hostel.

I was there! 9pm… the front door of the youth hostel was closed, but there was a bell. First time ringing… nothing. Second time: nothing. third time…… yes!

Tomorrow I will write about the second day!