NATO Summit
nathan - June 20, 2025, 2:27 p.m.
tags: biking
Sunny summer day, blah blah bike ride.
I decided to go beachward today, and plotted out a roughly 50 km route to that end. For some reason, though, I decided to go through The Hague. They're having some sort of event there next week, and a bunch of stuff is blocked off.
Of course I should have expected this because it's causing all sorts of disruptions for people who live there, but I guess I didn't expect them to block things off this early.
There were barriers to keep large vehicles from coming through the bike paths...
These were a minor nuisance, since I had to get off to negotiate them. However, right after that was this:
I was trying to get to point 37. See the sign there? Yeah.
So I tried going around, but ended up at the same place.
The second time I passed this guy, I realized I could actually go that way.
Anyway, I did that and eventually got to the beach.
I was not the only one with this idea.
Once out of Scheveningen, I had a nice ride along the dunes.
Up to the Zandmotor (English), where I started heading home.
I came back through a similar route to a previous trip to the beach, through a nice forest with cows in it.
Phone says:
Max speed: 46.2 km/h
Average speed: 20.5 km/h
Total distance: 52.5 km
Bike computer:
Max speed: 38.7 km/h
Average speed: 20.1 km/h
Total distance: 51.07 km
Amusingly, my average speed was 25 km/h before I got to The Hague. City riding really slows things down a lot.