Today's Bike Ride

[Hanneke]

Actually Tuesday's not todays, but I didn't have internet access in Mallorca.

86 miles and probably quite a lot of ascent. Pollenca - Campanet - Orient (including the col) - Soller - Col de Soller - Lluc - Pollenca

I was going OK until about 60 miles when my legs stopped working. This was half way up a hill that was about 15 miles long!

Luckily the last 15 miles of the route was largely downhill. Perhaps I shouldn't leave it 6 months until my next long bike ride next time. One of my mates beat me up that long hill by half an hour - and stayed in his big ring all the way up it.

I'll have to do Sa Colobra some time Hanneke. We had it pencilled in as an option, but my legs weren't playing by then.

Noel, you were there at the same time as me??? I came back Tuesday... We could have ridden together Sa Calobra was defo my favourite ride, g there next time!

Yours is a decent ride with a fair bit of climbing I did that ride too at some stage last week... I like the Orient, but actually loved the Puig Major (or big Soller as they called it) best, especially the descent, so had to do that a couple of times... Then Sa Calobra and the Selva climb again took precedence over the Orient for a 2nd time...

Could have done with another couple of days there LOL!