Downhill to the sea.

Daily Stats

Distance – 107kms

Elevation – 655 meters

Time riding – 5 hours 21 mins

Speed 20kph

Daily Disasters:

1 Allowed sore bits to get worse

2 Couldn’t get into the room with the automated system

3 Spent way too much on/in Valencia and failed to capitalise

As I awoke a storm hit the campsite. I had just enough time to close the tent doors as torrential rain hit the tent.

My off was curtailed by an hour or so. It cleared up as fast as it hit. But we were left with a strong wind that would follow me all day. The delays positive repercussion was I got to have breakfast with Latifa.

As I had ridden a good 15kms closer to Valencia I presumed the days ride would be close to 85 or 90 kms. That presumption proved totally wrong.

The rider started with a sharp down hill through a beautiful gorge, no time to take pictured as I was going too fast.

At one point my Di2 cable dropped out of front mech, took me a bit of time to work out the problem. At the same time it dropped out of full sync, took me a bit more time to work that out.

As a contrast to yesterday the route was mainly on road. I was feeling a bit sore from yesterday’s ride, it was good to be on the road but the sore patches are very tender.

I finally got into Valencia much later than expected. I had failed to find a place for 2 nights so will be leaving tomorrow, I so have cooked up this Valencia visit grrrrrrrrrr.

As a consequence I over indulged.