Wed 18th May: Today was a bigger day and I started it just a little pensive about the prospect of a long 185km day in the saddle in fine and possibly hot weather and that finished with a 900m climb up to the beautiful mountainside town of Sos del Rey here in central Spain. The 185 kms and a total of 1800m climbing for the day took us more than 6hrs and 30 mins to complete with an average ride speed of 28.1 kmph. The body and more so legs handled it OK except for the final climb where I slipped off the back of our group a bit near the summit due to not quite eating enough earlier in the afternoon. My fault. Anyway I got back on to the group just afterwards so it was not problem. The weather was quite sunny and hot in the afternoon as expected and we hit some unexpected road works at about the 40kms to go mark. Not normally an issue but the road works went on for some 12 km ! Out of our group of 17 riders - 10 of us all punctured quite quickly - me included. Anyway I am pleased to have this day out of the way and to have come through it OK. Tonight we are staying in another Paradore hotel. Quite impressive they are with excellent rooms, facilties and food etc. Tomorrow's stage sees us leave Spain and head into France with a another moderate 160 km ride.
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