Sleeping station 1

After a 10 walk with bike, guard let me in, but no hand cleaning facilities

Approaching the 2000K mark

I am not tired!

Final countdown

Lunch time

After 10 hours of riding in the rain we deserve a decent lunch

Second breakfast

Waiting for the bus?

Markus, slightly tired!

Sunday morning fun

Packing

Janne HCK

Rise and shine

Time to go, never felt better!

Party time

Or maybe, not-;) time for some sleep before final 420K tomorrow

Shifter cable breakage

TS9

The usual stuff

And top of that, Mathias Lindqvist is now part of our team!

Breaking the law

And pizza again!

Downtown Grythyttan

Food stop + Esperanto crash course

Lennart Svensson lecturing, Marcus very impressed!

Legs are burning

Almost bedtime after a tough day at work

Lots of height meters, headwind, 18K of very rough gravel road, 3 flats, two broken eggbeaters, one broken bag mount, chilly/cold and pouring rain on top of that. 295K, but it felt like 500

Vasaloppet

Favourite dinner

Plus extra topping

Mac Gywer

Fixing broken bag mount and left pedal with zip-ties. Too much rough and bumpy gravel road which also caused a flat.

TS5

Past the half way mark

+300K today and just 1040k left!

Food stop + TS4

24/7 staffing

Coffee break

Leaving Lappland

End of day 2

More than one third done! 780 K in two days, early night to assist recovery

The Michelin Man

Kari Martens ultra distance legend bulking up

Truck filled with liquid propane

Road closed for traffic, cops let us thru

Lunch time

Pizza + side dishes

Coffee break

Headwind + hills

Oops

Did not bring any snow chains

Back on the bike

After 5h sleep and a nice breakfast

Let's call it a day

After 500K on the bike

Milestone

Coffee break

Food stop

Thai

ts1

3 minutes to go

Flat tire in the mountains

Ready to roll!

Slept like a baby and the weather does not look too bad:-)

Analogue navigation..

Will be using seven cue sheets to ride through Sweden. Will I be lost? Most likely yes!

Arriving Riksgränsen

After spending just 24h on a train;-)

The polar circle is just 10K away!

Quick stop at "downtown" Murjek

Pretty much in the middle of nowhere;-)

Third and final train

Soon to board at Boden central station, just 6h left...

Breakfast on the train

Slept approx 2h in total, will change to another train in 3h

Proper preparations for racing

Hanging out with some cool fixie riders, Karl Börjesson and Johannes Okner