Day two - we are a had of schedule - Dagur tvö við erum á undan áætlun (26.06.10)

We woke up at 9 and after a hardy breakfast continued our bike ride. The day started with a steep climb up a mountain pass. We went up some 250 m. It was a slow but sure task and took us one hour to get to the top. I am not pleased with the gearing ratio. I don’t remember the gear being this high last summer. I was at lowest gear on the slope and I know that we have many steeper slopes to bike in the coming days. Lárus has however a bike that has a lower gear ratio and he was far from using his lowest gear. I however do better on the strait stresses and downhill. We stopped at the farm Erpsstaðir a had some homemade ice cream and from there to Búðardalur. The intension was to overnight there but we decided to have lunch and continued to Laugar about 20 km further (good camping area with a swimming pool. Weather was fine a bit of rain and some wind in the face towards the end. After the swim we put up tent (see photo) and went for dinner.  Biked for 5 hours in all 65 km.

 

Vöknuðum klukkan 9 og fengum okkur staðgóðan morgunmat að hætti MH-inga. Fyrsta verkefni dagsins var Brattabrekka. Gekk hægt hjá mér enda eru gírar of háir. Var kominn í lægsta gír en Lárus tók brekkuna tveimur gírum ofar. Ég hef hann hins vegar á jafnsléttu og niður brekkur. Hef nokkrar áhyggjur af þessu þar sem ég veit að það eru brattari brekkur framundan. Stoppuðum við Erpsstaði og fengum okkur heimtilbúinn ís en hjóluðum sem leið lá til Búðardals þar sem við ætluðum að gista. Fengum okkur hádegismat og ákváðum að halda lengra og fara að Laugum í Sælingsdal þar er sundlaug með heitum potti, góð tjaldaðstað og matsala. Veður var gott smá rigning við Búðardal og mótvindur frá Búðardal að Laugum en ekkert alvarlegt. Eftir sund settum við upp tjöld. Allt gengur vel hjóluðum í 5 tíma alls 65 km. Erum komnir 20 km fram úr áætlun.