i need to get the route up people are still asking about bikes in hotel rooms
today or last night we just did it
checked into a lot of hotels now with bikes and i think the best piece of advice is just to try and
take your bike to the room without asking if they try and stop you they have to provide a safe place
do you need any stuff chris start of the ride do i need any stuff yeah jewelry presents for free
get some uh big bag of chips whoa 24 hour stuff over there take a mix well pick a meat healthy
pickle mix tickets on the stick welcome back to the videos welcome to a chilly morning in spain
it's a sunday the markets are out it's actually quite nice to have some cooler weather after
what has been three very hard days on the bike very long days chris is just checking what our
total stats are for the ride because we're both feeling pretty fatigued today and looking forward
to a slightly easier day still in the mountains of course but only about 80k basically active
recovery things are fine oh things are fine fines since we started riding here with lawrence
everything 62 and a half hours 974 kilometers 12 800 meters of climbing there's a lot of bicycles
i'm really impressed with the scott foil gravel
it's a prototype new aero gravel bike mate you heard it here first arrow is fully coming to
gravel see it in all those american gravel races yeah tt bikes tt frames with clearance
to cover the nets the rocks the rocks the rocks the rocks the rocks are covered in nets
so we thought we'd take this day nice and easy this guy shows up with his light bike and it's
strong legs shifters tilted inwards shifters inwards i'd say that was cheating really
he's done us because we've got a few days in the legs
it fits it is hot and cold and hot then cold that was johan jacobs from the movie star who
did a little ride with us he has gone on to do 250k today so he didn't have time to stop and um
have lunch and he's training for a grand thought it was quite funny riding with him because he's
in movie star kit and we're in spain so the cars just let you go whether it's their right of way
or not we had priorities maybe we should just buy some mobby stuff 20 degrees tomorrow bring it on
isn't it mad two triangles and two circles could make you go well far
nitro nitro this is a rocket fuel gel my mate's company the reason for nitros is
it's really good for like or nitrate it's good for multi-day riding it's what's in beetroot
oh it's beetroot stuff right yeah so that's why this is quite good and i'm feeling a bit sleepy
it's desperate times and i can't string a sentence together anymore it's all the normal stuff
outside of bike riding that i start to struggle with after a few days of consecutive riding like
editing these together and like keeping on top of keeping your kit clean and your
bike maintenance and you know things that are normally quite easy tasks to do become more and
more difficult today's video sponsored by doing not a lot parked or crashed sorry air crashed
i really thought today was going to be a bit easier looking at the elevation thing
you really don't have any idea looking at the elevation thing and the distance and the predicted
time there's sometimes there's no correlation at all days that look easy end up being really hard
and the days that look hard end up being really easy i've been doing this a long time and still
it just messes with me every time today we have been just climbing and the road surface has been
like australia grippy stuck down gravel this is a hard day you've had it two emergency gels
i don't want to carry them anymore oh is that what it is part of it
i'll carry them for you got loads of space yeah oh nice frances i got a present for you oh cool
you very serious serious steve
could you just ridden up that [ __ ] hill one observation about being out here in spain
if you're buying sweets from the shop i haven't found any sweets with gelatin in they're all
gluten-free as well yeah they're all gluten-free and they're all vegetarian which is might not
matter to some people but it does matter to me and i found some and these ones are uh pintas
the reaction that they make me have when i eat them oh you went weird then yeah
i have proper glitch it was a problem
four hours of lapse time 108 tss and it's [ __ ] freezing we have four hours in that four
hours it's probably in our cafe oh yeah time in the chamois eh oh it counts as time on the bike
yeah i'd say that's fair technically we've done just as long of a ride as johan all need to do
is rest now and we'll be as strong as him what we should have done is stick with him
we'll make him carry all the stuff i think that's his training right he'll be he's like
training it's like doing martial arts with leg weights on that's what people do isn't it jim
we're doing lifting weights of extra weight sort of cowbell with a cow what 10k to go 20k 2020.
give
we just went for dinner and i walked in and i said a table for two please for pizza and
then we sat down and she came over with two very big juggers of beer and a plate of meat
and i don't drink and neither of us eat meat folks here in spain just take themselves for walks
we're going away mate