Cycling to Cappadocia: Marielle Jauring - Cycle Shorts

What's it like to go on a day cycling to Cappadocia?

Have you ever wanted to cycle there? Well today's episode features Marielle Jauring who did exactly that. Unfortunately for Marielle being struck by a stomach illness meant this was one of her hardest days on the bike ever!  Follow Marielle's future adventures via her instagram account.

Do you want to be featured for your own mini episode on Seek Travel Ride? Then send me an email and tell me all about one day of your trip.

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SPEAKER_00 0:24

Hello everyone, it's Bella Malloy here, host of Seek Travel Ride. Welcome to another episode in our Cycle Shorts midweek mini-series where we share what it was like for you, one of our listeners, during one day of your trip. One day of your bike adventures taking you far and wide across the globe. And before getting into today's episode, could I ask you to do me a real quick favor? If you're enjoying listening to Seek Travel Ride and you want to help the show out, please share an episode in your social media. Share it to your friends because chances are they're into bikes as well and they would love hearing the stories of a bike adventurer. Simply go into your podcast app, click that share button, and share one of your favourite episodes and what you liked about it too. When you do, make sure to tag us so that I can share it far and wide in our own community too. Now in today's episode, I am featuring adventurer Marielle Yering who is taking us to Turkey. This journey took her to a very famous site which many a bike traveller has on their bucket list. But I don't want to spoil the details. Let's listen to Marielle share one day of her trip.

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Hi, I'm Marielle and I'm currently doing a bike tour from Poland down to Sri Lanka. And uh a few weeks ago I had a pretty, let's say, like disgusting and heavy experience on my bike tour. So I was crossing Turkey from Istanbul to Cappadocia and it's been really hot days, around 30 degrees. And I had a really beautiful day on my bike, and then I pitched my tent up in the forest, and everything was fine and good until I woke up around three in the morning and I was feeling like really strange in my body, like you know, hot and cold, and I was like, oh I kind of recognize this feeling, like maybe I'm getting sick. And then a few seconds later I just felt like, oh, I have to throw up. So I I literally crawled out of the tent and I was throwing up and then I went into the tent again and I thought, okay, I hope this was it, you know, that it I gonna be fine in the morning. And I slept for like two more hours, and then it started, and I was shooking so much that I I think it was like 16 times I counted. I couldn't even keep water in my body. So anyway, I was getting out of the tent around like seven and I thought like okay, what should I do today? Because I I needed to go to Kapodoka because I wanted to see the hot air balloons, and that's only in the morning. And I had a 145 kilometer ride to do to get there. And I realized like I can't stay here in the forest because I'm not allowed to be there, so I need to move forward. So I picked packed my base camp up and I still kept on throwing up. And then I got on the bike and I thought, okay, my whole body just wanted to lay down and do nothing because I was so sick, but it was impossible because it's just filled, you know, like farming land everywhere. So you can't I can't lay there. I thought, okay, I just have to keep on biking. So I pushed it and I managed to go through that day. I don't even know how I did it because I couldn't keep anything. Like I tried to eat like two times, but it didn't work. I was literally standing along the road and and puking on the like highway. It was horrible, like I was so so sick. And also water it didn't, like my body didn't want to keep it. So anyway, I pushed it and I managed to bike this 145 kilometers, which like now when I look back on it, I don't understand how I managed to do it, and it was not flat. I had like thousand and kilometer elevation that day as well. Anyway, I got into uh Cappadocia in the night, it was like seven, it was dark already. And then I had to go through some of the like cheapest like mountain to push my bike to get up where I where I was gonna be. So then I did that and I pitched my tent up and I never felt better to just go in and lay down in my tent. And uh at that time I had to stop uh throwing up. It kind of stopped around maybe two in the afternoon, but I um I still haven't ate anything or drank any water, so yeah, that was a tough challenge to do 145 kilometers with an empty stomach and being stomach sick. And it's actually the first time on all my bike tours I've been stomach sick. But then it was all worth it in the morning in the sunrise when I woke up and I came out and I saw all the hot eye balloons and this unreal landscape, so it kind of made uh sense the day after, but yeah, that that was one of the tougher days on my bike, I would say.

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Thank you so so much there, Marielle, for sharing one day of your trip. What an absolute day that would have been. You know what, Marielle, I've interviewed many guests who've told me about the struggles of being sick while on a tour, and each time I hear them recount those tales, I try to put myself in their shoes and wonder, how would I go if I was on that journey and that was happening to me? I honestly don't know how you found the inner strength to keep going and the resolve to get to Cappadocia there, but I'm so happy that you were able to make it because I also, having seen your photos, can only imagine how you felt in the morning being mesmerized by hundreds of hot air balloons floating all around your head in that incredible scenery. Thank you so much for sharing your story and listeners keep an eye out in the weeks to come where I share a full featured episode with Marielle and her bike adventures as well. Thank you so much, Marielle. Now, listeners, this is where I love giving a shout out to my amazing super fans who are supporting me and the episodes that I am producing here on Seek Travel Ride by buying me a virtual coffee. This week I would like to say a big thank you to Martin Noakes, who said, love the podcast from Canberra, Australia. Thank you so much, Martin. I have a real soft spot for Canberra, Australia, because many listeners will know that's where I'm from and I love all the cycling that's around there. I especially love the idea that you're listening to me potentially while you're having adventures on the very roads and trails I personally would have ridden on. Thanks so much, Martin, for supporting the show. I also have to reach out to somebody called someone. Yes, another person who's decided to donate anonymously, and they have said, awesome show! You have a unique voice, interview style, and personal touch. I love your show. Well, thank you so much, someone. I wish I could know who you were and give you a proper shout out to your name, but just know that I am full of appreciation for the support that you're showing me here on Seat Travel Ride. Listeners, if you are a super fan and you love what I'm producing here on the podcast and you'd like to show a little love my way, please don't delay, click the link in the show notes, and you can buy me some virtual coffees as well, which all go towards producing these episodes of the show and bringing you new content each and every week. Until the next episode, my name is Bella Malloy. Thanks for listening.