lovely romantic start to the day francis cade breakfast there you go liquid breakfast
last day on the road is and isn't is it yeah last day with bags on the bikes so last night we stayed
in the most sketch place we stayed in the whole trip and we went to breakfast and we didn't trust
the breakfast wouldn't make us ill so we've come to mercadona our safe place starting off the day
with a beautiful bottle of aquarius we're heading back to the coast it's been a long time chris
five categorized climbs this first one's like seven and a half k i think average is like four
percent then we got 4k average 10 4.2 k average five percent seven point two k average four
percent four point nine k average five percent only one of them is a climb we call this ride
the [ __ ] big bleep so the trip was originally going to be two days longer than we've made it
this is plan b because it is raining a lot further up the coast in valencia so we're heading straight
back to alicante and kind of cutting across and missing out a day but we made it longer
and harder really because well otherwise it was going to be a 60k day wasn't it it should be
a really nice ride today through a beautiful national park and uh in the land of cycling really
lots of climbs on love welter and uh the route basically snakes all over the place as opposed
to being a straight line so we intentionally cut through the national park on some of the
climbs here in love welter around this part of town and probably been used as some of the other
multi-day stage races around here in spain be good so what you're saying is i'm carrying
loads of stuff and i could just go straight on to alicante downhill you could but i would be
disappointed with you i wouldn't even be angry for upsets or be disappointed like your dad
on the big 20 climb lots of spikes up this one lots of writing on the floor which means it's
probably been using the welter although it says they've written contador on the floor
wait he's raised the welter he's won it yeah but he's retired yeah but he can't still surely
wash away in the rain that they don't have here exactly you answered the question yourself for
artists this drought pretty crazy there is a drought in spain at the moment the rivers
are dry the lakes are no longer lakes i don't think they i don't think they've ever got water
in those rivers yeah definitely why would they have a river there the weather that we've been
experiencing here is unseasonably hot so most of the places we've been through particularly inland
are usually much cooler in fact they have days of snow sometimes and the people uh that we've been
staying with have told us it's just never been seen like this before and the blossom on the trees
usually isn't for a couple of months but it's out now so beautiful but not normal hey this
is downhill yeah you haven't seen it though have you no i i've hidden it from a screen on purpose
i went relatively hard because i never want to do that again we've done less than 30k we've
already done 100 tss if you are doing a bike trip like this and you're going to be riding 20 climbs
don't ride a one bike i'd like to say just don't ride it just go round there just go around it that
was the first time in this trip where the gearing wasn't enough um although you probably could just
i never used the biggest gear you'd probably just get another you know slightly bigger
cassette yeah that was quite steep the average over basically 5k was 10 yeah but
i would say that there was a large percent 15 to 23 yeah well there were some downhill
bits in it yeah that guy behind us in his winter kit can you imagine cheers
a bit dropped hard good and proper by the e-bike man come back swap swap oh this is the easy climb
easier in comparison i think the gradient lied to us 4k because there's a downhill bit in the
middle yeah average four percent 270 meters of climbing we're currently on 12 percent
sat at a cafe for a long time chris i'm not trying for the rest of the ride that's it now
i'm done this is this is my top speed this is my effort level pretty good francis we're going up
for four percent five percent excuse me we're doing good pace i would say good for the legs
good for the lungs it's all that volume over the last three weeks oh yeah
we've got 580 meters left of this climb francis and i designed this route to be [ __ ] hard yeah
220 tss so far that'll be the same tss is at the end though because i'm going
to freewheel the whole way home oh okay bye bye start free rooney now
but it's not working stupid christmas stupid hard ride for the last day 700 meters elevation
how do we get out
oh you might catch the washing line so close free rug
can't quite reach it
better replace these electrolytes beautiful finishing location pleasure always a pleasure
still got three days to [ __ ] around like it's gonna take me three days to ride from this
supermarket to the hotel that was an amazing last day that was really cool i need to sleep now and
have a rest day tomorrow well that is the bags on bikes bit of the trip finished we've got a couple
of days here still and we'll probably do a ride without bags on bikes chris has just gone out
for a quick spin now and then i'm heading to calpe next week to do some stuff with team ribble which
should hopefully be a really fun time now once this video has gone out i'm sure everybody will
have seen and caught up with the very sad news of what's happening in ukraine it seems so weird us
being here having such a fantastic time out on our bikes when something so terrible can be going on
on the other side of the world so just wanted to get across on these videos that our thoughts
are with the people of ukraine i just hope all of my viewers are able to stay safe and
i just hope there is some way that the situation can improve as quickly as possible bye for now
you