5am rain smashing down on my tent, too ealy to get up, i hunkered down under my quilt and just like that it was 7.30. Still raining but reduced a little. I ambled across to the shower block, sat in the dry zone, cooked porridge and coffee. Garath and Tam cruised past, they were slow like me because of the rain.
But slowly the precipitation subsided and we all made s lunge to our tents and stuff to pack before more rain stopped our momentum.
I left just before them. My route went up sbout 300m then down 1000m then up 400m then down to my bnb.
Really the gradient was quite easy and as i hit the summit at 10am the cafe at the top was empty and from the outside looked pretty dismal. But it was my coffee time.
The descent was long and some pretty steep dowm gradients 17/13/15/10%s An articulated lorry with a trailer hooned it past me on a bend, personally i thought way too fast for safe, engage low gear descending. But i didn’t see him again so i suppose he survived.
Then came the second climb, a much smaller road with no gradient indicators. Only 5kms long but quite spikey at times, as i got close to the top i saw the goat on ther roof, then met 3 British tourists.
Cruised dowm to Las Mazas to meet my BnB host. All settled in for 4 days now.
A Couple of Days Ride Outta....... 