My alarm woke me at 6am as planned and I had yogurt and oats for breakfast. These are the oats I bought 2 days ago thinking they were porridge oats but they just sat there bubbling in the boiling milk, so I’m eating them with yogurt.
I passed my first sign of the day for Wien which read 118km. Not too bad, something I should be used to, but I knew I had a mountain to climb. Since I hit the Alps I’ve developed a phobia of mountains or any small inclines. I need to snap out of this as its starting to ruin my rides.
Sure enough I hit the mountain. The road was wide, it didn’t look like I was climbing, not with the shape of the land around it, but I was struggling. I think sometimes climbing these mountains is more a mental strain than a physical one.
I got to the top and enjoyed a long descent. I had only 40km left to my halfway point which was Wiener Neustadt. This felt good, what felt even better was the mountains were starting to disappear behind me and I was on a long straight road with a good pace.
This continued all the way to Vienna. I had to change roads from the 54 to the 17 which was pretty seamless. I had a bit of rain when I approached Wien, but I had made it, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.
I finally have my rest day tomorrow. Got some washing to do and time to look around Vienna. I worked it out that I’m actually closer (as the crow flies) to England than I am Finland. Slightly depressing thought but onwards and upwards on Wednesday!