Mediterranean Coast to Coast

Stunning start to the day, no wind, no clouds, it was going to be a good day for cycling. From our traditional Spanish casa (house) we depart and head for the hills.  Today, Easter Monday the roads are dead quiet and we quickly eat up the 15km warmup to get us into the hills from Denia.  

Our route today will take us, coast to coast, two points on Mediterranean, through the beautiful, fertile Jalon Valley and up and over and down to Cap Blanc.

After steady climbing we drop into the valley and there are cyclists everywhere.  It's great to see, all shapes and sizes, but mainly younger, fit, toned men, I think I saw maybe ten female cyclists all day!


It's a fairly easy climb on super smooth roads over the mountains and down to the coast.  The roads are marked every 100 metres from kilometre point to the next kilometre.  I assume this is for the teams that train here, interval training, 100 metres on, 100 metres off.  These markings are all over the valley roads but particularly on the climbs.  We pause the super cool downhill, to take a photo of Calpe and hear cyclists with music blaring as they pump their legs to the beat, getting up the climb away from the coast.
Once down on the coast road that runs along the Mediterranean, it's bumper to bumper with traffic, but they are all courteous.

Of course, what comes down must go up, a climb getting out of the coast, 10% at times but doesn't last too long, the temperature has definitely reached its peak of 25 degrees.  









We just had to make a stop at this cool mural, across two buildings. I tried my best to line them up. The foreground wall is one building and the top 'girl' is the wall of another. 








Its a downhill blast for the last 20km, all the way home. great day.





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