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Monday, April 27, 2009
Korean Spring Training Camp 500kms, 4 days, 4 hours
Seung Hyup & I team up on a 300km ride to Pohang!
Night Ride begins on the east coast of Korea...
From Gangneung City, I take a night ride across the desolate Korean highway 7 to Donghae to discover a quiet rarely experienced in Asia! The skies are clear and as black as coal, no stars are visible, but the mountain peaks jut out making a jagged skyline. Without the dual-headlights, I think I will run into a guard rail or sputter on my brakes. This is a steep portion of the trip, decending into valleys and climbing back until I am on top again entering another mountain tunnel. Why would I ride at night on steep mountain highways? *Well, I work Saturday's from 9am-3pm, then must catch an Express Bus to the coast in 4 hours. From 8:45~9pm until 11:00pm, I have twice enjoyed a quiet highway. The first trip was in soggy rain, covering 200+km with Justin (English student, Cycling friend) and we jumped further south to Gyeongju to avoid the rain and since both of us had to be back to work Tuesday, I had all-Monday to complete the ride into Ulsan and finally Busan North Terminal before winding back north by bus for work-Tuesday. These photos are from my second trip this season. From sleepy Gangneung south to Pohang in 2 days, 2 hours...300kms mountain/sea cycling, 30kms hitch-hiking (after the third flat!) and 45kms finally into Pohang to catch a bus to work! The second weekend trip was ridden with Seoung Hyup from Incheon, he was out riding Korea before his 2.2 year military service in the Armed Forces Korea (AFK). Happy trails to you ~~~^^~~~!!!
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About the Korean-World Author
Brian has completed his second mountain bike journey, MongoliaX expedition - Crossing Mongolia 2012, an unsupported mountain bike MTB expedition across 2500km of Outer Mongolia from Ulanbaatar to Altai Taven-Bogd National Park bordering China, Russia and Mongolia.
In 2013, as a sequel to a trilogy of cycle tours, Brian enjoyed a more leisure bicycle tour onboard his Koga-Miyata World Traveller seeing the northern tier of the United States and western Canada covering 3400 kilometers / 2000 miles in 30 days. This North American cycle tour was called Totherocktour. Enjoying the adventure of bicycle travel and every great conversation started while traveling on the road - has refueled his inspirations to cycle around the Earth. In 2013, while he cycled solo from the Great Lake State of Michigan, United States to Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He weaved through local communities and reconnected with friends, family and community after spending almost a decade in Asia.
Brian is now supporting several non-profit foundations through expeditions: IDEAS Foundation of Canada IDEAS is the acronym for Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society which supports the IBD community, those suffering from IBD-inflammatory bowel disease, also known as Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis.
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