Out the door at 7:15 and skipped the coffee in town. I had noticed a coffee place open in Santa Ana and was coming on the to be open. It was and I stopped.
Just out of Santa Ana there had been an accident. A car was plowed into an embankment on the opposite side of the road. Cops were at both ends of the crash and 5 to 10 people stood on the opposite embankment gwaking. Hard to tell what happened but it seemed a pretty big deal here early on a Saturday morning.
Soon I turned off to a single lane road with some up and downs. At Trujillos the climbing began. From when I got on the single lane to the top was about 500m. Nothing insanely steep but most over 5%.
Most of the time there were olives on both sides of the road. Near the top there was a herd of goats.
Coming down was great but a little hard on the breaks. The sections of 14% really generate a lot of speed. I was back in Alcala la Real pretty quickly and had a coffee and churros.
Last visit I did this ride around Cerro del Ciego in the reverse direction and took a bigger road from Trujillos to Alcala. This direction is vastly superior - for me anyway - as the gradient is not as extreme and the downhill scenery is better. Avoiding the bigger road and taking the single lane from Ribera Alta is much nicer.
Back home I worked in the house and eagerly waited for my Amazon delivery of the new power supply. Unfortunately, it seems the PC is the problem and I had to order a new one.
I went to lunch at Rincon de Pepe and had a very tasty salad with chicken. Saturday afternoon everything was closed down and the streets were deserted except for a few foreigners.
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