After walking up a mountain yesterday we could hardly move our legs this morning, i think we must have used different leg muscles and boy did they hurt, the deep heat was out first thing.
We got the bikes out and were eagerly awaiting the bike clubs from alcoy and cocentaina to join us and stuart with his trike to follow us in. Stuart turned up with his beloved hand crafted trike, after 45 minutes there was no sign of the other cyclists so we set off. To my delight it was all down hill and we soon cruised in to cocentaina, my legs shaking with excitment and relief.
We had a large welcome party awaiting us and a delighful suprise my parents had flown over to meet us. Vincente and Begona at Dolca Vida Cafe had put on music and a stage to award us with a trophy and bottle of champagne. Sue our friend had made banners and a finishing line and put posters up everywhere. It was a lovely day and a superb finish to a hard but worthwhile 3 weeks.
Many congratulations!!! Sorry we weren’t able to make it to the finish line, it sounds like you had a great welcome from the locals which you truly deserved. Take care and enjoy the Spanish sun now by relaxing in it! Belinda
thanks, we are now enjoying the sunshine and resting our aching bodies. Thank you for the donation, please keep in touch, if you are on facebook, Debs Phil Walton Smith,look us up, and we’ll possibly meet up another time when we are in spain.
Fantastic!! What an amazing achievement! I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog and hope that the money starts rolling in… Have a well deserved rest and wallow in your success. Carlos.
cheers carl and thanks for your help, it’ll be great to look back on this in the future, just a shame i didn’t have a dictaphone while we we’re riding lol