8 days old bike going 788 km conquered Qinghai Lake (map)
(Reporter Dan Shanwei) bicycle tour of Taiwan, travel to Southeast Asia, or even board the Mount Everest base camp ... ... a lot of people around the world have a dream, Guangzhou riding club for the elderly, in retirement They finally seventies in his sixtieth year, with a bike such as the ward. Not long ago, the club's 10 elderly people also completed a "feat", they took 8 days, riding way 788 km, at an altitude of 3,000 meters above the lake, ride around the lake a week straight.
, the oldest 76 years old
retirement, Malaysia is the foundation, Guangzhou Wanbao refrigerator plant engineers, since the old bike in Guangzhou in 2001 the club set up, he became in charge of team riding who missed his second time trips.
"this time compared with previous riding, there are four major difficulties: car repair hard, shopping hard, eat hard, stay hard." Foundation of Malaysia introduced the 17 teams in the in The oldest was 76 years old and the youngest are 60 years of age, the most unexpected is the difficult environment.
altitude cycling eat cooked rice
"high-speed road around the island road, cement road, there are country roads, road conditions vary widely, my bike twice a flat tire, but just could not find Xiuju Pu, into the township also does not get a car repair master. "Mobley said Xiuju Pu hard to find, not easy to stay the same, in order to find a suitable guest houses, old people riding hundreds of times a day km, riding 78 hours straight investment into the town after the shop, the old one informal, and sometimes both men and women, 45 people crowded a room, after working hard all soundly dreams.
"the most painful is to eat cooked rice." 60-year-old Jiang Yuxia, said more than 3,000 meters above sea level in Qinghai Lake, hot water can burn 80 ℃, rice cooking unfamiliar, boil again after they have Cover wok for an hour. Therefore, his faithful ride cooking often eat cooked rice, gastrointestinal seriously suffering. Sometimes all the way across one hawkers selling vegetables, old people only chew rice wash it all down. Fortunately, altitude sickness on high blood pressure, heart disease and other chronic diseases of the elderly did not affect the body.
Mobley said the club currently in Guangzhou, more than 300 elderly members, are the absolute cycling fans. Each trip, ride anywhere from several small groups of Friends, as many as dozens of tour.
so proud of old people, from Xin Matai beach to the constant river of India, has left the faithful of the heroic ride of Guangzhou.
10 elderly people to complete the whole
6 月 7, Guangzhou, Guangzhou, more than 60 representative of the elderly to participate in national old riding session. Since then, two groups of elderly people once again rushed to the Ningxia and Qinghai. Which sent a total of 17 teams in Qinghai, the elderly, by the 73-year-old foundation to lead Malaysia.
car arrived in Xining, almost all elderly arrow refers to a goal: ride around the Qinghai Lake, the challenges of high altitude above 3,000 meters above sea level international cycling circuit. Starting from Xining, by Huang, the multi-bus, the dark horse holes and other places. After 8 days of riding, travel 788 km, a total of 10 teams will finish the elderly, seven elderly people because of a bad car or road feel discomfort in the bus halfway to switch back to Xining.
