Today was always going to be one of the toughest days of this week as though the distance wasn’t overly far, there was a lot of climbing, and it was pretty much all on gravel! Things began pretty well –…
Back to the gravel (stage 51)
There was rather a lot of rain in the night, but by the time we were getting up this morning it had thankfully stopped and the wind had done a reasonable job of getting our tents dry. Today was very…
Let the (real) climbing begin (stage 50)
Today was (supposed to be) our first foray over 3000m but in the end as the Chinese have been busy building a new road according to my Garmin they’ve shaved a few metres off the top of the Dolan Pass to…
It’s all about the sleep (stage 49)
The music started with sunset – initially from ‘over the hill’, but then also in the bay we were in. Somewhere around 2300 there were fireworks, then there were drunk people coming to swim in the lake quite near my…
Back in the groove (stage 48)
Yesterday worked! Today I’m back to looking forward to the day which is probably just as well given that this is one of our longest riding stretches at seven days, and there are some pretty significant hills later in the…