The pain from my saddle is way beyond a joke.

I watched last night the devastation in Valencia and Castille la Mancha. I needed no English words from the news to understand the consequences.

Daily Stats

Distance 68kms

Elevation 1463meters

Time 4 hours 3 mins.

Speed 16.9kph

Daily Disasters

1. My saddle has really started to hurt me. Luckily I’m old enough not to want any more kids coz I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t be able to.

I ambled out of the hotel and set up my bike/bags then sat down to a coffee and toast and jam, I know something different, that’s the kind of guy I am.

So pleased my back brake is working again. But I popped into a bike shop to get some fine oil to lubricate some pivots. The shop guy initially misunderstood, my bad as my explanation was crap. One eventually we got there, unfortunately it didn’t solve the problem, that’ll be another job for Dales Cycles when I get back.

My route today was up then down practically 50% each way. And as I went up I wasn’t particularly of a mind to take many photos, I really just wanted to concentrate on my pedalling. Usually at about 2½ hours my undercarriage starts to suffer, but when I go up the time is reduced to about 40mins that gives me 80mins of crotch hell.

Mear the top I came upon a band of workers strumming the grass and undergrowth.  I thought it a peculiar time to be strumming.

The top had 3 or 4 false summits. Extremely stressful. And as I got close to the top the temperature dropped substantially.  I was down to just my short sleeve cycling jersey as the climbing was hot.

Between Granada (going up) and Almeria (going dowm) districts the road surface was night and day, Granada was so smooth them Almeria…

But the road got better after 10kms or so. This descent was fast and zig zaggy. I really enjoyed it

I rolled down and into my hotel. 🤔 there is s possibility this is a day rate hotel.

Then I had a snooze, worked out my route for tomorrow and did nothing the rest of the afternoon.

Link to my tracker here interestingly it’s times like this when there is uncertainty and flooding and disasters that I specifically bought the tracker for. Just so people can check where I am and if I’m moving in the correct sort of direction.