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Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Biking in Puerto Rico – or at least the Northeast corner!



It was time for family vacation again over Christmas, this time to visit family in Puerto Rico. This year I happily obliged as I saw an opportunity to get in some high volume training under the sun, so I decided to bring my bike with me on the trip. Actually, I brought my wife’s bike. Even though the frame is a little bit too small for me, I figured out that the Scott Addict XS should work fine for two weeks. On top of that, my wife had nice Di2 shifters and most importantly disc brakes and sturdier wheels compared to my road bike. This was good to have on the steep and often wet descents from the mountain regions, and the sturdier wheels were great to have on the rough patches of pavement to minimize the risk of punctures. Not to much problems getting the bike on the plane, had to argue a little to not pay extra fee as United has bike “FoC”, but ended up paying one way fee due to the overweight - the bag was stuffed with all training gear on the way back as we needed space for Christmas presents received…


Biking by the beach. Hot...