So boys and girls, we have another story for you now. The last day of the “Pedal for no Medal” adventure. The date was February 7, time was 8:15, the temperature was -1 degrees and the four bikes got on
Who knows how Russians get up in the morning, but for us the 8 o’clock wake up call came like a cold shower in a dark cave. The contrast of which with the warm and sunny days was just mind
After 13 days of constant freezing and trembling this morning came like a spring in February. The sun was generously pouring warmth over the mountains of Crimea and soon the temperature raised above the zero point, lifting our spirits and
Some of us were restless and others got the time wrong, so our camp started to bustle an hour earlier than planned. When we woke up the last sleeping beauty Karlis B. and offered him the morning porridge, Karlis didn’t
Yesterday’s hardcore chill-out has left it’s marks - this morning Kaspars was complaining about a muscle ache in his leg. But other than that everybody was feeling great mainly because of the bright sunlight dancing on the white sheets of
This morning started with encouraging news. According to the weather forecast the temperature outside was -18 degrees with a wind chill of -32. We got goosebumps just thinking about the freezing day to come. Karlis B. was especially indignant and
There is time for rest and time for doing, and this morning our rest time was over. The bike of Karlis B. tried to disagree by puffing out air in the hotel lobby, but we bribed it with a new
This morning the cyclists strapped their bikes on the roof of our van and we headed in the direction of Latvia. “Ok, at last they had enough of this madness,” you might think, but you would be wrong. The reason
Because of the time difference between Poland and Ukraine this morning we can afford to sleep half an hour longer than yesterday. Under normal circumstances these extra 30 minutes would seem irrelevant, but after 11 hours bike ride every minute
Yesterday evening we had a late meeting and decided that we should make a better use of the limited daylight by starting the ride earlier. Nobody was particularly excited about the prospects of getting up even earlier and being grumpy