Day 2 Training camp, Coll de Rates and along the coast.

We arrived in Spain yesterday and were keen to get bikes built and head out for a spin.  The sun was shining and it was good to ride the summer bike again.

Today we planned the route and headed straight up the Coll de Rates.

We had decided that today we would head along the coast road form Altea, Calpe and through Denia.  83 miles and 5hrs finishing with a long head wind drag into Pego in the last hour of the ride.  This was the bit that really sapped everything out of you before the last couple of climbs of the day.  Despite Karen saying she was on her last leg's, I seemed to be the one to  fair worst over the last couple of small hill's before the road back to Parcent.  All in all a good day's riding and lot's more miles to come.

Tomorrow's route already planned another 5 hr day hopefully, up Vall de Ebo and around the reservoir.