This year has had so many fantastic and horrible things, I'm not going to start going through them (especially the horrible, meh humanity, you suck). But one thing that highlights this year for me was the amount of cycling I managed to do. Compared to 2023 with 3222km, this year I've got through 5705km, which is way more than I would have thought. One of my aims was to ride more than the year before during every month, which I accomplished, though somewhat only just for a few months. I also did my first proper longer length bikepacking trip, a total of 1500km in Germany, Switzerland and from there north to Amsterdam. Definitely wont be the last trip, though nothing major planned for the next year, yet. Apparently the kids want to travel too..

Throughout the year I increased my longest ride distance to 121km and did several climbs I thought I would not be able to do (1633m one ride total over the Vosges mountains, with a single one time climb section of ~800m or so). I also set several average speed records on some of my Helsinki routes, maxing out a 26.31km/h over 20 kilometers.

Overall I'm super happy about how things have been developing on this front and am looking forward to lots of enjoyable kilometers during 2025 🤩 To challenge myself a bit I signed up for the NGS Gravel Primavera Borgå 2025 race in May, for a 100km distance. I've never done anything like this before, hopefully should be fun. I'm just wondering how my dear extremely political sticker covered straight bar Sanna gravel will fit in 😁

Happy new year everyone, and lots of happy cycling kilometers in 2025!

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