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With four Children and a Tandem through Norway and Sweden

Karl Brodowsky, cycled 2002-07-07 to 2002-08-09, written 2002

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Disclaimer

This translation has been made by me, Karl Brodowsky. If you don't like my translation please try reading the German original instead. Or let me know of errors, so that I can correct them. My mother tongue is German, not English. Anyway the spelling and wording in this text is meant to be American English, the way it is used near the Atlantic coast, if you like to be more specific on this.... Still, measurements are always based on the metric system. I did not want to downgrade to non-metric measurement systems. This would be slightly confusing in Scandinavia, where a mile is typically meant to be 10.000 km, not 1.609 km like an American mile. So please do not blame me for that.

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Table

This table is meant to give some overview on how far and how fast and where we have been riding. We did three measurements, but one value should be enough. Values in parenthesis refer to day trips that brought us back to the same camp ground. They do not go into the accumulated total distance. The highways with green or white numbers (but without an E) in Norway and with the blue numbers in Sweden are called national highways (N). Fylkesvei in Norway and Länsway in Sweden without a number are called highway (X). All other roads are called back roads (Y).

Date	Route	Target	trip- distance	total- distance	average	maximum
2002-07-06 (6)	Kiel	Norwegenkai	(7.56)	0	10.9	23.9
2002-07-07 (7)	E 18 (Norway) - E 6 - N 159 Lillestrøm N 22 Fetsund N 172 - N 171 - N 173	forest	55.35	55.35	9.60	32.6
2002-07-08 (1)	N 173 - X - N 175 - X - N 2	Kongsvinger	57.58	112.93	11.78	43.4
2002-07-09 (2)	N 2 Kongsvinger N 2	Kongsvinger	(8.78)		9.31	41.4
2002-07-10 (3)	N 2 - N 210 - X	Braskerud	69.58	182.51	13.55	40.5
2002-07-11 (4)	X Elverum X	Rena	64.16	246.67	12.21	50.5
2002-07-12 (5)	N 215 / Y	Rena	(36.76 / 46.69)		18.91 / 14.20	47.0 / 36.6
2002-07-13 (6)	N 3 - X Koppang N 3	forest	66.18	312.85	12.22	44.2
2002-07-14 (7)	N 3 - N 29	Alvdal	76.45	389.30	11.75	44.6
2002-07-15 (1)	N 29	Alvdal	(27.91 / 21.49)		21.01 / 15.47	45.5 / 37.8
2002-07-16 (2)	N 29 - N 3 - X Tynset N 30	Røros	78.10	467.40	12.81	40.8
2002-07-17 (3)	N 30 - N 31 - Y Olavsgruva Y - N 31 - N 30	Røros	(32.39)		10.67	49.3
2002-07-18 (4)	N 30 - N 31 - N 84 (Sweden)	Fjällnäs	56.16	523.56	10.70	42.8
2002-07-19 (5)	N 84	forest	63.64	587.20	12.02	47.6
2002-07-20 (6)	N 84	forest	54.12	641.32	12.80	37.4
2002-07-21 (7)	N 84	Sveg	39.81	681.13	13.33	39.3
2002-07-22 (1)	X	Sveg	(27.88)		19.85	45.1
2002-07-23 (2)	N 45	forest	76.15	757.28	12.45	42.8
2002-07-24 (3)	N 45 - X - N 70 - X	Mora	72.86	830.14	12.33	46.9
2002-07-25 (4)	N 45/N 64 - X Sollerön X Gesundaberget X - N 45/N 64	Mora	(40.96)		13.19	40.9
2002-07-26 (5)	N 45/N 64 - X Sollerön X Gesundaberget X Siljansnäs X - N 45/N 64	Mora	(24.37/90.92)		17.46	38
2002-07-27 (6)	N 45 - X Karlås X Orsa X - Y Grönklitt Y - X - N 45	Mora	(66.74)		11.65	51.5
2002-07-28 (7)	X Älvdalen N 70	forest	60.99	891.13	11.76	38.6
2002-07-29 (1)	N 70 - X Lövnäs X	forest	43.96	935.09	10.27	41.3
2002-07-30 (2)	X - N 311 Fulunäs X - N 71 - X	forest	43.10	978.19	10.18	41.6
2002-07-31 (3)	X Rörbäcksnäs X - X (Norway) - N 26 - N 62 (Sweden)	Höljes	55.19	1033.38	12.62	45.3
2002-08-01 (4)	X Höljes-lake X - N 62	Höljes	(37.88)		14.40	35.0
2002-08-02 (5)	N 62 X Letten X	forest	62.48	1095.86	10.69	44.7
2002-08-03 (6)	X - N 45	Torsby camp ground	52.32	1148.18	14.41	44.2
2002-08-04 (7)	N 45 Torsby town X	Torsby camp ground	(16.42 / 11.56)		d16.95 / 15.10	40.5 / 27.9
2002-08-05 (1)	N 45 - N 239 - N 200 (Norway)	camp ground	55.81	1203.99	10.79	41.7
2002-08-06 (2)	N 200 - N 20 - N 2 Kongsvinger N 175 - X - N 2	camp ground	72.60	1276.59	12.33	38.8
2002-08-07 (3)	N 2 - E 6 - E 6/N 22 - E 6/N 4 - E 6/N 190 - E 6 - Y	Oslo	66.24	1342.83	10.61	46.10
2002-08-08 (4)	-	Oslo	-
2002-08-09 (5)	Y - E 18	Oslo ferry	13.02	1355.85	12.15	38.8
2002-08-10 (6)	Kiel	station
2002-08-11 (7)	-	Schaffhausen	-

What is special about these numbers? Average speed and distances show that we could travel about 75 km on one day, with mountains something like 50 km. Bernhard could keep our speed and it was much easier than 1999 to cycle the mountains. We have cycled 1355 km with full luggage. In addition we had cycled 327 km (me), 393 km or 130 km (Bernhard) for day trips with less luggage.

In the next year Ulrich will probably cycle himself for the first time and we will look for an easier trip. We will then be able to leave things like that for many years, but maybe a second tandem will become necessary, so that we can cycle with one of the girls on the back seat and the boys can cycle themselves. Interesting travel areas like Kirkenes or the fjord areas in southern Norway will have to wait a little longer, but we will eventually come.