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Two Boardsies in the Sierra Nevada
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08-03-2009 5:44pm#1Some photos from today's spin, Emty and myself are in the Sierra Nevada for a week. Only 70km but around 1,400m climbing. Last climb of the day was a solid 700m up. The descents are very good, excellent road surfaces and tearing around hairpins the order of the day. Quite hot, we are a bit sunburnt now. Hope to do a bit longer tomorrow. We will be dead by the end of the week.
EDIT: Just to add, we are over here with Vamos Cycling on Barrabus' reccomendation (he was over in January.) They are great husband and wife team and have made us feel very welcome in their lovely house in Cádiar.0
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Yes, indeed, they are escorted- Gary is taking us around himself (orange jersey.) He is a bit of a savage going up the hills and is really putting me through my paces trying to hang on to his wheel.scottreynolds wrote: »Are Vamos suggesting your routes?
On top of that great food (breakfast, lunch (more than one today
) and drink all included. Dinner is a bit extra but was delicious last night. Plenty of it all which is what you want while cycling!
I generally get on OK with sunburn, as long as it doesn't start peeling it goes brown the next day. Will suncream myself tomorrow.
We will keep you all updated, hopefully it will be spring when we get back.0 -
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Lucky you! It sound's like a bit better than my day today!!! Enjoy the rest of your trip, how long are ye staying for?
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Today's effort, 100km with just over 2,000m climbing Was all either up or down, there were no real flat bits.
@Hurin- not ultra-steep (yet) but they are long compared to Wicklow, you can get a good 7% that goes on for many kilometers. Max I think I have seen has been around the 11% mark (not sustained.) So far, probably very slightly steeper than the Alps but the climbs are shorter. The road surface definitely makes climbing a lot easier.0 -
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We will be sure to post more photos after tomorrow's spinCaroline_ie wrote: »I hate you guys ... 0 -
Today's effort, 70km with ~1,500-1,650m climbing (rounded/Garmin.) A quick 400m climb we have done a few times now followed by a 1,000m fast descent over ~18km. Half way down I got stuck behind a car doing the speed limit
so stopped to get a short of emty descending (first photo.)
This left us at 300m altitude and so next step was a climb straight back up the other side, another 18km and another 1,000m elevation gain. We cycled up through the clouds and came out over them. I was getting very worried by emty on this one, I had dropped back while he was keeping pace with Gary and nearly had me on it. I had to lighten myself of all excess liquid both on the bike and elsewhere and then set off in pursuit; just caught him with the last 100m climbing to go. I have given up trying to catch Gary. A bit of undulation with just one 120m climb followed before the familiar 400m drop back to Cadiar.
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I know what Pipas are but not sure about the Maiz- some sort of corn thing? The 5 tonnes of chocolate is a coming-back-from-France thing, not sure I will source same here. I am out of salty Lindt unfortunately, could do with some more.Caroline_ie wrote: »Blorg ... can you get me some Maiz and Pipas if that fits in the box between the 5 tones of chocolate you will probably bring back? ...
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Caroline_ie wrote: »Yes, dried fried corn you get at the news agent or the supermarket NomNom
We've brought kilos of that stuff back over the years. Too salty for my tastes but a certain someone in my house loves it.0 -
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Haha, if you think that is bad you should see me on the way up the climbs, everything is hanging out! Today was a bit shorter, just over 50km, but with ~1,250m climbing (not sure exactly as my Garmin altimeter has gone wobbly again) including a 800m which got nasty steep towards the top. Three new cyclists have just arrived from England so I may head out again after lunchscottreynolds wrote: »For the love of all things good in this world please Zip your top up in the next photos.....
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Took it a bit easy today, 70km with a bit over 1,000m of climbing. Tomorrow is our last day, hopefully we will bring the weather home with us. Emty is getting a lot better at descending.
@Planet X- not the people in Pro Cycling, no.
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Weathers already good (although not Spain good). Already onto short fingered gloves. Reckon that this w/e will be shorts and shirt time homefully.
Yep, good weather here alright! I headed out yesterday with full finger gloves, shoe covers, leg warmers, tights, jacket, thermo top etc... but I managed to take off the warmers and jacket mid cycle! Lovely feeling, not so nice white legs though!
Today I headed out with no shoe covers, no jacket, no legwarmers, only my fingerless gloves, shorts, thermo top, jersey, shorts and shoes! Lovely temperatures alright, I can't wait until it gets a bit more consistant and also the longer evenings! 0 -
Home:Ballyhoura wrote: »Yep, good weather here alright! I headed out yesterday with full finger gloves, shoe covers, leg warmers, tights, jacket, thermo top etc... but I managed to take off the warmers and jacket mid cycle! Lovely feeling, not so nice white legs though!
Today I headed out with no shoe covers, no jacket, no legwarmers, only my fingerless gloves, shorts, thermo top, jersey, shorts and shoes! Lovely temperatures alright, I can't wait until it gets a bit more consistant and also the longer evenings!
You must live some where else. I was out yesterday for 130km wearing shorts, a base layer top and a ss jersey. I did get cool and put on my gilet but apart from that I was grand.0 -
Last day today and it was a tough one, we went above the snow line with a 125km spin, around 2,800m climbing. Three main climbs the main one being over 1,500m ascent, this was worse than anything we did in the Alps in October. Descent was brilliant, dropped 1,000m in a bit over 10 minutes. I am looking forward, like I never have before, to not cycling my bike tomorrow Great holiday, great hosts, I would thoroughly recommend it.
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