Recent content by massivecompacthalo

Girona's not bad, the only negatives for me, loads of traffic and not enough variety of climbing. But if you head inland a tad more, you get everything. 40mins west and we have 30 plus Cat climbs inc a handful of HC. Polite drivers, smooth roads, little traffic, coast accessible, mountains...

Volta de Montseny Montseny National Park, 45mins north of Barcelona. This route is anti clockwise, probably the easier. 91km, 1992m of elevation. Top of the cat 2 climb, 8.6km, 1045m above sea level. Part way down the 10km descent. Top of the cat 1 climb, 12.5km. Highest point of...

Cheers, it's a Canyon Aeroad CF 1st model.

I'm all for a little showing off! Girona province, Catalonia.

North east Catalonia, avoid Girona area and head inland towards pre- Pyrenees. Top of Girona province, Barcelona province and Lleida province. Climbing in abundance from short to long distance, easy to incredibly hard gradients. Virtually traffic free and where there is traffic, very respectful.

Here's this weeks. From Catalonia, included a cat 1 climb of 7.1km, ave 9%, with lots of ramps at 20%. Total elevation from the Garmin was 1600m.

I really don't understand the problem with the organisation here. I'm 60kms away from today's finish, its not high, so at most it's raining. Other races suffer from intensive rain and still broadcast. Yesterday was not a weather problem, but very little coverage plus a *** up with the info for...