Gotta love the quads. Dependable. The mind. Less so. Just spent 2 days covering about 100kms through fields of maize, sunflowers, farms and volcanic plains. That and some serious hills! I have named my bike Sant Jordi - after the patron saint of Catalonia (better known as Saint George). As I reached the hills I would say, 'Take me up Sant Jordi!' When mind and quads were in unison we were invincible but a couple of times, especially in the full sun I lost it! 27.5 C up a steep incline just didn’t work. Couldn't always slay that dragon! But the pleasure of freewheeling for over a kilometre downhill with the wind in your hair made the effort well worth it. We then made our way down through the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park through forests
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