I don't really care, as I didn't from the beginning because I've found popular, organized sports unsatisfactory. And Tour de France mostly unimpressive at the times, considering I had a much more heavy bike, and no car with a spare standing by in case of flat tires or other mishaps. I also did most of this in normal traffic, needing to stop at traffic lights, crossings, whatever. And watching out for all the broken glass, all the times.
Maybe gulping down a can of coke, orange juice, isotonic sports drink, in no more than five minutes. Going back, usually 1 to 2 minutes slower, because of wind coming from the south, which is funneled there from within the Rhine valley out into the open "Kölner Bucht"(Bay of Cologne?).
Did this at least a few dozen times in this times.
This time with a classmate on a much better bike, and member of a cycling sports club.
In nineteen minutes! Classmate almost collapsed on arrival. Though the first third to quarter of that track goes slightly downhill. Anyway, don't remember the time back, because I didn't want to give my classmate health problems, so we took it slowly.
Twentyone minutes! Up to 25 on my way back. Did this at least several dozen times in that time. "Progressive" car drivers take 25 to 30 minutes on that route. 'Normies' more like 35 to 40.
Also did countless other tours from my first OSM-link to Aachen, Koblenz, Hagen, Düsseldorf, and up into the Eifel, to the big radio-telescope in Effelsberg, then mostly downhill through curved roads back to the Rhine, and back home along it. Also tours through the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebengebirge on the other side of the Rhine to Siegen, or just up the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drachenfels_(Siebengebirge) instead of taking the cog-wheel train ;->
All in rather good time, maybe not for the first time, but when I knew the road(s) better, having built up a mental picture of the 'ideal line', hazards, and such.
From https://osm.org/go/0GIDMKQGO--?m= to
https://osm.org/go/0GC~DS4_r?m= in 25 to 30 minutes, depending on weather, traffic, whatever.
Maybe gulping down a can of coke, orange juice, isotonic sports drink, in no more than five minutes. Going back, usually 1 to 2 minutes slower, because of wind coming from the south, which is funneled there from within the Rhine valley out into the open "Kölner Bucht"(Bay of Cologne?).
Did this at least a few dozen times in this times.
Going from https://osm.org/go/0GJGHYJiY?m= to
https://osm.org/go/0GC~DS4_r?m= again.
This time with a classmate on a much better bike, and member of a cycling sports club.
In nineteen minutes! Classmate almost collapsed on arrival. Though the first third to quarter of that track goes slightly downhill. Anyway, don't remember the time back, because I didn't want to give my classmate health problems, so we took it slowly.
Then, in another temporary 'home turf' for about a year, from here https://osm.org/go/0GI2sXyvp-?m= to
https://osm.org/go/0GJpBsflN?m= which is very hilly with many steep inclines, ups and downs, on all available routes.
Twentyone minutes! Up to 25 on my way back. Did this at least several dozen times in that time. "Progressive" car drivers take 25 to 30 minutes on that route. 'Normies' more like 35 to 40.
Also did countless other tours from my first OSM-link to Aachen, Koblenz, Hagen, Düsseldorf, and up into the Eifel, to the big radio-telescope in Effelsberg, then mostly downhill through curved roads back to the Rhine, and back home along it. Also tours through the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebengebirge on the other side of the Rhine to Siegen, or just up the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drachenfels_(Siebengebirge) instead of taking the cog-wheel train ;->
All in rather good time, maybe not for the first time, but when I knew the road(s) better, having built up a mental picture of the 'ideal line', hazards, and such.