April 4, 2011

You might well be asking – why only 49 kms?  However, if I say that I have only used one gear today and that was the bottom gear you might start to understand our dismal lack of kilometres.  I still feel that our original target of 100 kms per day is achievable – just not in Spain.  It certainly won´t get any better tomorrow because, apparently, we have the hard bit to come! 

In spite of the pain, the tiny mountain road we came up today was a fantastic ride – it is one of the stages of the Vuelta de España and the road was covered with encouraging messages all the way to the top.  Tomorrow we complete the run up to Jaén., which is only around 40 kms from here.  We may decide to spend a bit of extra time there – we’ll see how we feel.