Days like today are the reason I enjoy these bike trips. This morning started with a steep climb from the Hotel to the main road. A short distance, then a jog to a small road and that's all we saw of the busy roads today. For the majority of the ride we were on small secondary farm roads passing grazing live stock and miles and miles of agricultural. Some corn but mostly sunflowers. Miles and miles of sunflowers. They had all passed their prime and the huge seed heads were hanging limply on the stalks because of their sheer weight. I don't know anything about sunflowers, but my guess is that the farmers are allowing the seeds to dry a bit before harvesting them.
The roads climbed and dropped quite a bit and we accumulated over 1500 meters (~5000 feet) during the course of the day.
There was one point of the day where after a rest stop, the road started a long downhill and on either side was sunflower fields stretching as far as the eye could see. We were coasting with the warm wind wrapping around our arms and legs as we went. The wind wicked away all sweat keeping us dry as we went even though if we were to stop of a couple of minutes, you would be drenching in sweat.
We were just out of town when we came upon an unexpectedly large hill, take a look at the Garmin plot below. Up and up we went. The hill was pretty steep and being at the end of the ride, it took a lot out of us. But he rewarding downhill into town was really enjoyable and as we entered the town we discovered very large castle walls with a castle high upon a mountain peak.
After that, it was one more hill into town and we quickly found the hotel.
We're planning on exploring the town and the castle tomorrow.
Happy Biking,
Brian
The roads climbed and dropped quite a bit and we accumulated over 1500 meters (~5000 feet) during the course of the day.
There was one point of the day where after a rest stop, the road started a long downhill and on either side was sunflower fields stretching as far as the eye could see. We were coasting with the warm wind wrapping around our arms and legs as we went. The wind wicked away all sweat keeping us dry as we went even though if we were to stop of a couple of minutes, you would be drenching in sweat.
We were just out of town when we came upon an unexpectedly large hill, take a look at the Garmin plot below. Up and up we went. The hill was pretty steep and being at the end of the ride, it took a lot out of us. But he rewarding downhill into town was really enjoyable and as we entered the town we discovered very large castle walls with a castle high upon a mountain peak.
After that, it was one more hill into town and we quickly found the hotel.
We're planning on exploring the town and the castle tomorrow.
Happy Biking,
Brian
No comments:
Post a Comment