Well well... what a 2 years we have had.
This El Fondo ride was originally planned for summer 2019 but if you scroll back up to one of the last pictures of Day 3 you will notice the temperature on my Garmin on that third day reached a staggering 139 degrees Fahrenheit !!! So after collapsing into the McDonalds in Castellon where I drowned myself in water and cooled down I decided it was not good to carry on. Wildfires were reported around Barcelona and inland the temperatures were even hotter than on the coast.
I got a bus back to Barcelona and stayed one night and then a train back to Girona my starting point and rested to grab the next flight home the next morning.
Absolutely gutted but so glad I did have the sense to bail out of that intense heat. That winter in 2019 I re-planned the ride for early summer 2020. The plan was to get back to Castellon and start where I finished.
On the 23rd March 2020 Covid-19 changed everything.....
Almost 2 years to the day I sit here having just sent my bike to AB Cicles, a great bike shop in Castellon and in 10 days I will follow it there and make my way to that very same Castellon branch of McDonalds to top up my water bottles once again and restart the adventure....
photos and videos and blog to follow....
Welcome to El Fondo 2022 !!
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