Ponferrada to Sarria

I wake up at 3am to a thunderous amount of snoring coming from the three other old guys they stuck in a room together with this geezer. The walls were shaking. 4hrs of sleep and my brain gets going, I'm hardly in my fantastic new euphoric state anymore. Doubt creeps in, amongst other things decision time is still the big choice this morning. I'm all packed and ready to go, but where? 180km or so to Santiago - just bust it out and walk to the coast to test my shin for the next three days? The weather does not look great, I'd rather walk then ride in it. The Invierno is just so off track and with bad weather it has potential to not be very fun. Very different from the Frances. Let's stay on Frances, punch it out. Let's go test the walking while keeping the bike on hand. And let's go find that balance back!

Oh boy today. Started under heavy rain. Lucky it let up. The mood got better. My attachments let go, met Brazilian cyclists. Then British and a Dutch tandem husband and wife. Really fun I jumped on their wheel climbing the approach to Cebreiro pass. They stopped before the steep part, I went up ahead and followed a guy with a backpack and a shell up a step incline. I went the wrong way but I didn't know until I had climbed over 2000 ft. Stuck on the wrong road I got to add another 2000 extra for the day. Sometimes you just never learn.

But then again you do. I got to detach a strong feeling from it's object today and I was able to key back into the present when out of it. That's a win for today!

Oh by the way the chart in the albergue was wrong it was 235km, add the detour and that makes for an interesting day.Läs mer