The Last Day. It Turned Out

Daily Stats

Distance 96kms

Time 4 hours 42 mins

Elevation 764meters

Speed 20.4 kph

Daily Disasters

1. Taken up a dead end dirt road

2. Didn’t phone the bike shop early enough.

Last night I made a decision. There were rain weather warnings for the whole area. Tuesday was supposedly clear but Wednesday snd maybe Thursday torrential rain. So I decided to book a hotel for 3 days. I still had to find a bike box for the flight home.

Alarm set for 7.30, I woke and slowly got my stuff together. And was out the gate by 9am. The first 20kms was a hilly and through s few towns.

There was Churros, chocolate and coffee.
The classis 3C trifactor.

Then my route took me on a classic Komoot road detour

Then this a near vertical dirt climb. I decided to return to the road, only a couple of kms back.

Then my route took me towards a tunnel. I found out subsequently that some riders ride through the tunnel but at sbout 900meters long they scare me to death, so I took the old road detour which turned out to be a beautiful climb

I knew when I descended this hill it was near flat all the way to Malaga.

As I got a bit of steam up, I met 2 cyclists who were going sbout my speed so I latched on and drafted them. One turned off and I stuck with the other, he seemed quite content I was drafting him, I did take the lead once but he immediately overtook me. I thought he was starting to flag when 2 young cyclists past us, and my guy put the pedal to the metal and chased then so I chased him. Now we were really flying.

Then I knew it had to stop eventually, we came to a roundabout and all 3 turned and left me. I was a bit worse for ware. I slowed down and stopped to put a bit of fuel into myself.

Only 26kms left. I cruised into and through Malaga. And finally got to my hotel at about 4 or 4.30

I showered and relaxed. My feet were severely thrombing and I had a bit of a headache.

Eventually I ambled to the reception desk at about 5.30. I asked and they had kindly agreed to phone some bike shops for me. 3 no answers and the 3rd call the guy answered, he spoke Engkish and had said he had a bike box. But he closed at 6, not enough time for me to get to him. So I now have to run the gauntlet of the storm tomorrow. 🤞🤞🤞🤞 here’s hoping all will be good.