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Another Road Ride today with Jose.

 

From Boltaña to Graus Plaza - 53km with 900m of climbing. Open roads, sunshine, no traffic, some climbing..... and some descending. We saw Vultures and a pet Jabalíe (Wild Boar), we met friends and had lunch. It was a great day out :-)

 

Some amazing views today . . .

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We stopped en-route see Jose's friends pet Wild Boar . . . 

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Finished up in the beautiful Graus plaza.....

 

 

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Our route and our climb . . . . :-)

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Yesterdays blast on the MTB . . . . stopped up in the Old Town to grab some water from the "Fuente" and a couple of pics.....

 

My bike with the Peña Montañesa behind it and the Rio Cinca looking south towards the Mediano Dam.

 

It was a beautiful day and good to be out :-)

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There's always a line :-)

 

 

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A bit of XC last weekend . . . .

 

 

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Out in the middle of nowhere, me and my bike putting the world right! :-)

 

 

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With the Alto-Pyrenees to the North and the Lakes to the south, there are enough big landmarks around here that although you might take a little wrong turn occasionally, no one should ever really get lost.......

 

Zona Zero have taken care of the sign posting and done a great job.....

 

Happy trails . . . . . 

 

:-)

 

  

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Did a road ride with "Jose the Priest" and "Fermin the Sculptor" on Saturday afternoon. Beautiful day for it and the views are always worth the climb!

 

Fermin is 76 years old and climbed the first 7km - which rises 500 odd meters - without any problems. If I can ride like that at 76 I'll be a happy man!

 

 

From FB:

 

A "Colombiano", an "Ingles" and an "Español" riding together on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

At one point Fermin (he's a Sculptor who also sings Opera) and I were singing "El Mondo"..........

 

 

 

 

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Did another road ride with "Jose the Priest" and "Fermin the Sculptor" on Saturday afternoon.

 

Boltaña to Campo and back. 70km, with over 1000m of climbing. Worked the legs, caught some sun and Fermin, who sings Opera, sang to us a little on the climbs!

 

A great day out.

 

 

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Taking a breather on the way to the abandoned village of Muro de Bellos.....

 

 

(no idea why the picture is posting sideways!)

 

Edited April 28, 2021 by Bonus

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Remembering the "Jose "Pepe" Perez Memorial Race" held annually in October in Barbastro, a town about 50km south of where we live.

Jose was a policeman who was sadly killed on duty. 

I raced this in 2018 and loved it. Hoping it will be on again this year. The race was well organized and had a great atmosphere. 

 

 

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Every year we get a week or so of crazy hot weather in August. I mean August is always nice and hot, but a week or so of temps exceeding 40 degrees.

This year has been no exception and over the last few days we’ve topped out at 41 and 42 degrees several times. When it’s that hot you struggle to do anything, even thinking straight is hard! Like everyone, we do the best we can under the circumstances. Drop the outside blinds to keep the sun out of the flat during the day, drink plenty and swim in the river in the evening to try and cool our body cores down! Sleeping is hard, just sitting still is hard. I’m glad I finish work at 2:30 every day, because the afternoons are just too hot to work in unless you’re in somewhere with aircon!

Yesterday the temps dropped a few degrees and today they should drop a few more. We’ll have 30 as a max instead of 40 – which will be lovely. I’m looking forward to getting on the bike again after a week off.

Thankfully we did have a cracking thunderstorm in the middle of the very hot spell and that settled the dust for a day or so.

Let’s see how the next week goes . . . .

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"We all have that one friend who becomes a stuntman on a ride . . . "

 

Just found this "video still" on my hard drive whilst having a tidy up. I can confirm that no Americans were harmed during the making of this video....

 

 

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I've been road riding with "Wendy" every afternoon this week. The weather is warm & sunny and the roads of Zona Zero are quiet..... a perfect time to get some miles in!