Race Around Poland 2025 (1) Just a bit of a race report of the Race Arou…
Race Around Poland 2025 (1) Just a bit of a race report of the Race Around Poland. What a race. I decided to participate in Self-Supported Race Around Poland 2025. Interesting experience and I was not sure if I get if all planned right or not. Why did I do the race? First of all, I wanted to use it as vacation schedule to also see my parents in Germany. Have not been able to see them ion person for about 2 years and that was a great excuse to stop at the place where I was born and grew up for about 2 decades. Had a great chance to ride with my parents (both 8 years old) before going to Warsaw. What a trip to Europe. I packed everything like when I went to Hawaii … unfortunate the weight limit was different now, so I ran into issues from start of my adventure. Had to buy another bag to make sure I could move stuff from Bike case to reach the max weight limit. As that would not be enough … I did drive from Florida to Atlanta to avoid connection flights. Had the flight to Munich, Germany and from there a one-way rental car to my parent’s place. Plan was to assemble bike and leave the bulky bags and travel by train. Unfortunately, no ticket available to go to Warsaw with bicycle. So repacked the bike in the large case and put what’s needed in the same case for train travel since that funny as is was OK. Travelled to Warsaw 2 days before the race. And assembled everything plus had a bit of riding to get a feeling for the beginning of the route and for traffic in Poland. It felt OK overall.Package pickup went perfectly fine. Picked up the bags for the time stations drop offs and went to hotel to get everything prepared for dropping off the stuff and to go to the race meeting on Friday. Unfortunate or fortunate. Heavy rain made me to use Uber taxi to go to the race meeting. Dropped all bags off that I wanted to get shipped to the time stations. I had head lights, tail lights as well as power banks for charging my phone and Garmin bike computer. Added to certain time stations.
