Lier

The spring-like weather last weekend was excellent to go for the first >100 km tour this year. A very much needed training for the 250 km Ronde van Vlaanderen in one month time. At the same time I was a little ill the week before so going a lot of up-and-down would not be the best idea. So, flat waterways again. When will I ever go to the rolling hills of the Pajottenland again?!


The link to the track.

Bernd joined me on this one. We left via Vilvoorde and on towards the Jagdpad starting in Hombeek. Until then not much new. I know the way there blindly by now I believe. Still it is one of the best routes for cycling. When arriving at the "Zennegat", instead of cycling along the Rupel we decided to go along the Nete towards Lier.

In Lier, we started to go back via the famous "fietsknooppunten", starting from punt no. 30. Again this took us along some waterway but I have no clue which little winding river that was:

The way back via knooppunten 30-28-72-49-35-36-37-01-74-73 until Boortmeerbeek was some of the best knooppunten route so far. All well paved with little freaky cycling path bits or suddenly unpaved roads. No changing direction all the time. Really excellent if it wasn't for the headwind that got strong, especially along the boring all-straight Haachtsesteenweg back to the airport and into Brussels.

All togehter certainly one of the best "boring" flat routes with a total of maybe 250 m "climb" (on 111 km in total). Could even be a rival to the so far favourite Zenne-Rupel-Schelde route.