Today, the start was set for 6am… yes, you read that correctly, 6am !!! So being prepared, I got up at 3:30 to go for breakfast and as I feared, they were not ready to serve food at 4am. There was only rice at 4:20am, well, it is what it is!
After breakfast, I had to pack my bag to go on the transport for later, then it was almost time to go to the start.
Today, the start was a lot quicker and since there is no starting pistol, the people in front weren’t really ready. First, it was about 20k undulating fast gravel, but we had to stop after 16km. Catherine was losing air from the rear tyre…. I have to admit, this made me a little angry as she had spotted this problem before the start. Something was obviously wrong but not corrected! Now we had nothing with us to change the problem part. I wanted her to use her foam, but it turned out that she didn’t know how it worked, so we used an ordinary air cartridge and set off again. Continue reading „Stage 2: La Rochela to Salimana“