Bicycle marathon 2015

Hello!

This is kinda a Throwback type of a post. A few weeks ago, I’ve participated in my 3rd ever bicycle marathon – Kaunas bicycle marathon 2015 (official page). I wanted to tell you all about it the same day that it happened, but just couldn’t find the time to do it. So, since I should be revising for my tomorrow’s literature and creative writing exam, let’s talk about cycling.

To begin with, I am not a professional cyclist, so I chose the distance for the amateurs  – 15 km. In 2013, I won the 2nd place in the women’s group of the same distance and in 2014, I was 4th. This year, the organizers decided to divided the women category into 3 parts: girls (ages 10-14), teenage girls (14-17) and women (18 and up). This really worked out in my favor, because I’m 17 (turning 18 in August), so I was the oldest one in my group. And it turns out – the fastest too – I won the 1st place between teenagers! I was 4th again in the overall lineup if you count adults in.

I was really proud of my accomplishment! Also, one of my best friends, who does modern pentathlon, was the overall winner in the women’s group (she is already 18).

After receiving our medals, we watched professional cyclist doing their thing – they could choose either of 2 distance – 47 km or 101 km.

During the longest race, it started to rain, so the ground got really slippery and a lot of cyclist went down pretty badly. It was really scary to watch. I was happy that my race took place during the morning and that the weather was perfect for it – sunny, warm but not to hot and the wind was not too harsh.

Anyway, in other bicycle news, I was a part of my city’s team for the European Cycling Challenge of 2015 (official page) . I think Kaunas city finished in 17th place ,which is really good for a small city. Gdansk won, with Wroclaw taking the 2nd place and Warszawa – the 3rd. If you don’t know, what this cycling challenge is, it is basically a friendly competition between European cities. The citizens of various cities competed during the whole month of May and were trying to become a city, who cycled the biggest amount of kilometers. I added about 150 km to Kaunas total number.

I hope you have a great week, I have 2 huge exams next week – (Writing on Monday and Math on Friday), and then I will have only one exam – History – left. That one will take place on the 8th of June and then I’m officially done with school forever. We will receive our high school diploma’s on July 5th. I will do a big Graduation post after that and will tell you everything about my senior year and all the special celebrations we had throughout the year. If you want to know a bit more about Lithuania’s education system, I spoke a bit about in a post last year – read it here.

Bye!