Andalacia MTB Stage race-Day 6

Stage 6 ;

The last day was supposed to be a 30km time trial but as the previous day's stage was cancelled the organizers decided to run a normal stage but only 50kms instead of the normall 70-80km.

Having not ridden due to the mechanical on Wednesday and the cancelled stage on Thursday, my legs for once were feeling quite fresh and as were knew it was going to be a comparatively short stage so we both started as fast as we could. This was really great  as we were riding together with a lot more teams instead of trailing along with the stragglers.

Stage Winners

After about 10km we went through an Olive tree plantation and the mud just stuck to everything and nobodies wheels would turn. Virtually every body scrambled en mass up onto a railway line running parallel to the Olive tree field. This did not go well either as the stones which the railway tracks were laid on just stuck to the mud and jammed the wheels even more than just the mud.

Once we got past these hindrances we climbed up past the snow line. The tracks were pretty muddy after all the rain and snow from yesterday and we did an awful lot of pushing our bikes up up up. The course today basically went up one very big hill and back down again. The down hill had a lot of slippery muddy rocky tracks to start with but later we had some lovely fast singletracks and only a couple of rivers to wade through. We finished further up the field than on previous days which was good.

David