Blog – Day 6 – Tortoreta Lido to Campomarino

 

Today’s ride was over 91 miles of beautiful countryside. Tom, my son had his second crash of the week and again no one else was involved. Fortunately his rugby training means that he bounces but it still makes me worry !

Rob also had a small incident with a Smart car but there was no damage. The day was really fast with speeds of 25 mph reach on sections. Tim, Joel, Neil and Ted really raced over the last 30 mile section at a really high pace of around 20mph. 

Food was supplied by Jac and Loraine with their usual efficiency.

In the spirit of everyone giving their perspective, todays Blog comes from Joe and Joe writes :

At the start of today it seemed like it was gonna be a hot one. I woke up feeling like I had a hangover after only 1 lemonchello.  At 8am it was 28 degrees and again we would be hugging the coast.

I had little motivation as I wasn’t feeling great so I plugged the ipod on and slowly got the legs turning.  The road unusually for here was terrible and busy so a few near misses from everybody culminated in Tom putting his foot into his front wheel spokes and doing a flip for the second time in two days.

All was ok and we continued.  Finally the scenary changed and we headed straight into town (Pescara) A huge traffic jam and some crazy Italian drivers meant it was a lot like riding in the centre of London.  I am very surprised no one was injured but we got through it found a stop by which time we had covered 31 miles and the heat luckily had not materialised, it was only 33 degrees!

At this point sprits were high but we had no idea what was in store.  60 miles left and lots of hills, our first challenge, a challenge Sophia wasn’t too happy about but there was no choice.  Scotty helped us through ably aided by James, Rob and Adrian.  The route looked amazing and was, for me, certainly a welcome change.  However the miles were long at this stage.  Lunch could not come soon enough although Rob decided it could as he left his glasses about 3 miles back and had to ride to get them (bad times). 

Parked at lunch was an amazing old Fiat convertible (not sure what it was but I want one) accompanied by FOOD and lots of it.  I was feeling the miles by now and soph was suffering either with the heat, the miles or the hills but I think all played a part.  She wasn’t speaking much and I decided that it was probably best not to test her as I remember my feelings towards Andy when I was in this mood in Spain.  I hated him and the world and just wanted silence, I thought this was best. 

Finally after 91 miles we rolled into Campomarino to find a very nice hotel (eventually) and the beach.  Tomorrow, a hilly day and 95 miles although as I write this a lengthy discussion is taking place to change the route.  I really don’t care about this discussion hence I am writing this but we will wait to see the result.  Its also both Tom and Tims birthdays so the bikes will be decorated (pics to follow)

Thanks For the support.

 P.s Mum. The bread pudding is going down very well!!! Several people want the reciepe.

 Joe