A new bridge in Helsinki left me unexpectedly out of breath. Was it me, or was the bridge really steeper than the ones I'm used to in the Netherlands?
To find out, I revisited two bridges in Nijmegen and filmed the rides. The video and the story are in this week's post.
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The first time I cycled up the new bridge in the Finnish capital Helsinki, at the beginning of last month, I did not make it to the top. I got out of breath, and my heart was racing at a rate I had been taught not to ignore during rehabilitation after my open-heart surgery, so I stopped to rest.
