RE: It's been a while but I'm still riding!

Cool to see you're still enjoying your bicycles. Very nice that you have reached your goal already. You will reach the 5000 km easily this way 💪🏻
I haven't been riding a lot until a week ago. Busy weekends, preparing for my holiday and working from home resulted in very few kilometers in the past months.
Last weekend I did go on a cycling weekend in the Ardennes where I made two long rides with a lot of elevation, which was beautiful, but also killing with my bad preparation 😂.

Region Blois (which is a lovely city by the way) is very nice. I made a couple of nice rides as well when we were there, but I did bring my road bicycle.

Percentages above 20% are terrible. I've experiences them a couple of times. Last time was the Super Planche des Belles Filles where the last gravel part had a part which was 24%.
I had to zig zag my way up and pulled my front wheel from the road a couple of times.

Continue riding 💪🏻