| Bengkulu to Manna | |||||
| Date: | 01-09-2014 | Time: | 05:47 h | Σ Time: | 70:58 h |
| Distance: | 140 km | Σ km: | 1511 km | Temp: | 20/39 °C |
| Up: | 1082 m | Σ Up: | 14665 m | Calories: | 3056 kcal |
| Down: | 1052 m | Σ Down: | 14567 m | Σ kcal: | 34374 kcal |
| Conditions: | A fast marathon warm-up in the morning. The 42 km flat out of town would have been a treat, if the air wouldn’t be so polluted from the early morning commute. | ||||
It was easy rolling on the first 40 km. Thereafter it became more rural, hilly and the road sometimes a bit broken. The landscape did not change much until we turned back to the coast. Rice fields and palm trees build the scene. Lunch at a police station with a school next to it. This guaranteed spectators and entertainment. After lunch temperatures increased to reach upper 30th.
Today I was stopped by two girls on a motor scooter. They followed me quite a while, then passed, fall back again, passed until finally stopped next to the road and signaled me to stop, too – which I did. The first word of the girl was ‘OMG, I want a photo with you’. So I had a road side photo session and many more “OMG’s” …
