First train of the day bound for Tarbes, rode to Luz Saint Sauveur. You can see where this is going.
Col du Pradel. 7400ft over just 52mi. A totally stellar day of riding, with baked potatoes in the middle.
Coffee and pastries in Ax-Les-Thermes before climbing up to the ski village of Bonascre on a misty morning
The climb up Plateau de Beille, 10mi at 7.8%. But at least there were cows with bells.
Photos do a poor job of capturing how narrow the road coming down off Port de Lers really is, let alone the tightness of the turns or the unpredictability of the surface. That is to say, it was great.
The weather had different ideas for yesterday’s planned ride up Col du Port. We’ll make another run at it today.
We'll call this Pre-PBP “training”. Not the terrain, but definitely the baguette and wine.
Catching the early train
Day 20. 45mi along a familiar route, the Canal du Garonne, to our conclusion in Toulouse.
Day 19 was an easy 39mi along the Aveyron that climbed to a road under the cliffs we saw from camp last night. A few more miles beside the Tarn to our arrival in Montauban.
