Imst to Innsbruck (Ride Day 5)

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Strava recorded route
Distance: 65.68km
Moving Time: 3:30:16
Elevation: 198m
Speed Avg: 18.7km/h
Speed Max: 48.0km/h

After breakfast and padkos acquisition I packed my bags and set off for the day. Oh ... the bike room there was quite cool had a full on massive tool kit for anyone who needed to do any bike repairs etc. and a pump and no doubt other things if you needed.

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Bike room at hotel

I set off at about 08:45, was a very pleasant day riding along the side of the Inn River, only about 50m of nav weirdness near the start of the day's ride but once that was out the way it was smooth going. It was also mostly downhill generally for the day which helped.

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River

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River

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Bike on a bridge

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At least I'm going in the right direction (towards Innsbruck)

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Bike path

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Cool church on a hill

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Cool church on a hill

At my one rest stop chatted to 2 students who were riding all the way to Prague. Also at another stage saw a guy working on his deck so stopped and chatted to him and he kindly gave me a water refill and re-wet my neck cooling towel. That towel is pretty good, just drench it with water then wring it out a bit and put it around your neck, really helped to keep the core body temperature down. Couldn't have had a better spot where I stopped for lunch, stunning views of the mountains and green pastures.

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Mid-morning break

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River

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Bike path

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Lunch stop

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Fields

Got into Innsbruck OK and then to my hotel which was on the other side of town, I had checked in by about 13:30.