Discovering Riga on bicycle

About 3 month ago I got small leg muscle injury when ran Kuldīgas half marathon, but unfortunately it continued prey on me. And then I decided to buy bicycle and go in for sports in that way. I bought it 1.5 month ago but i found much much bigger excitement rather than in simple running. Actually I owned bicycle last summer, but unfortunately it had been stolen 5 month after purchasing. F***ing robbers! I was in loved in that bike a lot, and even now my heart crying sometimes.
Often I ride 3 – 4 laps in Biķernieku motor race track. But when I am in mood and have a free time I take longer ride. Last Saturday I and my friend Mārtiņš took a ride to beacon of Mangaļsala. Our root you can see in my google maps Ride was aprox 60 km long. When we are on our way back, Mārtiņš’s bike caught a peace of glass and ruined hist tyre. Happily we met some guys with pump. Quickly pumped up tyre and rushed to next gas station to pumped up again. And till sunset we luckily reached home.
Today I planned even farther trip through unknown woodlands and streets. I accurately studied map. The most tricky place was woodlands between Bukulti and Carnikova. My plan was use lakes as reference point. I did not want to take map with me because its too uncomfortable so only my orient tool was compass. But as you can see in my root in google map, despite of compass in some places I choose little bit wrong direction and never encounter any lakes. Some death ends privet properties and burial-ground also was a problem as a result of I should choose more unfavorable root. My odometer say’s that trip distance was about 80 km long.

Here are the planed (blue) and actual (red) roots.

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