Day 2 Near Forbach - Near Simonswald 110 km

Day 2 Near Forbach - Near Simonswald 110 km

And again 2000 meters of altitude :D. What a day, really nice weather. So first thing in the morning, the night was really cold. The tent thereby completely damp, helps nothing pack and on the bike. Previously, the whole packing and unpacking, tent assembly and disassembly has annoyed me beastly. Today, every handle sits and thus the whole thing goes within a very short time (about 15 minutes). The first hour was really tough, still relatively cold and steadily uphill. Nevertheless, I had a smile on the lips, 11 years ago at the dam there came then at some point the Willi and his first words were: "Do that again with me!" quite hateful. So that's when you go to the limits and beyond, there pushes you a hatred. I can't blame him today, not even back then. He also got himself back in pretty quickly. In addition, he chose the way out at that time, so I was innocent of his situation, as always and as always I like to serve as a buffer. Sometime today I was then finally on the Black Forest High Road and then on to Mummelsee and Hornisgrinde. At that time I let the good sit at the lake and am to the summit, today I just wrote to him and we wallowed in nostalgia. Then it went on for me the federal highway 500, really beautiful, was today fortunately not so busy. One I had today thought he must me from behind "beeping" and I had just a pear to eat in the hand, which is me in shock from the hand fallen and banged directly on his door. Verbally, he was not equal to me and I suggested him to call the police, after all, I had everything on video (GoPro), including his coercion. He said the bump is not so bad, I apologized again, he drove on, but so what. The beautiful pear. Then I was finally up on the plateau and let it roll to the Alexanderschanze and what came next is a dream. The Wolftal down, 30 kilometers downhill to Wolfach. Unfortunately with a bit of headwind today, no matter, the cut he made no harm, against 12:30 clock I was there and the heat was tremendous, therefore short lunch break, then continue. For the interview I still need a good position, with net. I knew the way, what came next I had suppressed. 18% gradient on 6 km and still one hour to the interview. I had underestimated the heat, which has pushed me twice in the shade, stop briefly to catch my breath, soak headgear, continue. With luggage such a slope is really tough, at almost 40 ° C even more so. 40 minutes later I was almost at the top and found a good shady spot with very good network coverage (near windmill) and then dialed in. That was really a nice round and oh my god did I miss talking about chemistry. Bromine, aromatics, electophilic addition vs radical reaction control. Research again soon, so looking forward to it. After that the worst heat was over and I let it roll all the way to the campground. I knew the route from 5 years ago. The comparison to this, somehow I was more broken five years ago than today. We'll see how tomorrow, the route I have in mind has brought me five years ago to the brink of collapse, I stood in the forest, bared my teeth and shouted my hatred into the world. And that already in the morning at 10 o'clock. That will be great tomorrow, in this sense