Average speed: 13.3 mph
Max speed: 35.7 mph
Time in saddle: 6 hours 49 min.
Firstly, welcome aboard our latest reader Geoff Howe to my blog who has joined us late after a few technical issues.
Day 3 was a lovely hot summers day and without cutting the blog short, pretty much similar to the previous day, plenty of climbing and plenty of descending. Only overshot one corner on the way down, fortunately no big drop!
Coming up the Col des Ares a couple of minutes behind Dave and some of the rest, seemed to have missed all the excitement after a wild Bull had rampaged through the cafe area and it was everyone for themselves. Fortunately being late and wearing red was a good thing.
Going up the Col de Portet d'Aspet, this one was not too long, only about 8km, but bloody hell was it steep. Some people were saying 18 percent in gradient, just Damn tough if you ask me. Picture above is of me getting to the top.
Once there, it was an easy 25mile ride down to the finish.
Apologies for those people who don't like me mixing miles with km's, but its toughet when your route map is in km's and your bike computer is in miles.
Sorry and don't be so anal !
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