permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/longboarding-vennbahn" title: "Longboarding: Vennbahn" published_date: "2016-06-09 16:20:00 +0200" layout: post.liquid data: route: blog --- Today, right after finishing my only lecture of the day, I rented a longboard at a local skate shop and then took the bus out of the city. I went out to Kornelimünster, a small district of Aachen, about 10 km outside of the city. ![](//tmp.fnordig.de/longboarding/0609/th-2016-06-09_12.44.21.jpg) In the last days it rained half of the day, but today it's sunny and really warm. The route goes mostly downhill from Kornelimünster, so I did not need much pushing and could just let it roll. ![](//tmp.fnordig.de/longboarding/0609/th-2016-06-09_12.53.25-1.jpg) I collected the route with an app. The results: 10,9 km in 53 minutes. Top speed: 31,5 km/h. 12,4 km/h on average. ![](//tmp.fnordig.de/longboarding/0609/th-2016-06-09_13.18.03.jpg) I was much quicker than I thought, so I got some ice cream in the city of Aachen before heading home. ![](//tmp.fnordig.de/longboarding/0609/th-2016-06-09_14.34.02.jpg) The route on a map ([available in a Gist](https://gist.github.com/badboy/9c27ca438570a800507f2a76fdd19544)):