What have I done to deserve this? Who’s telling me to get involved in this mess? How long until we arrive? Won’t a ghost appear and push you a little? Cueña les Cabres in your drawing Angliru? All these perversions, because they are bad thoughts, appear in your mind as you cycle up the most famous Vuelta mountain, which was included in the race route in 1999. Chava Jiménezhe cried many times, winning through the thick fog.
Test quantity this Wednesday Angliru And these are big words. If we talk about the difficulty of climbing a mountain by bike, there are very few peaks that surpass the Asturian peak, perhaps even in Spain. Snow PeakIt is located in Gran Canaria, but the Vuelta never went there due to the infrastructure challenge required to transfer to the archipelago. If we look at Europe, mortiroloThe essence of the Giro in Italy. And very little else.
monuments of the tour, tourmaletWhere the Vuelta took place last week, it continues Mont Ventoux and end beasts of the alpsClimbing Alpe d’Huez, Galibier, Izoard or Croix de Fer is not that complicated. These are increases as long as a day without bread, but they are a far cry from crime rates. AngliruWhere the worst version of the Criminal Code can be applied.
an animality
I can only say that it is brutal. I installed this at the company in 1999. Pedro Delgado (he came first, this was nothing new, just mathematical logic between a superior being on a bicycle and a mortal) and I said never again. I kept my promise and have only taken buses since then. Embrace. Of course, without looking down to avoid dizziness.
Angliru is only available for heroes. Before anyone gets angry, champions who love to suffer on the bike as if it were a masochistic act, their gender doesn’t matter. Inside Angliru It is impossible to have fun and enjoy the view. You go with what you go with, and what you will do is suffer like an animal going to the slaughterhouse.
Where champions can reach
Conquering the top is only in the hands of champions. It doesn’t matter how much time you spend or whether you have the desire to put your foot down at some point; This is a huge mistake because unless you have compassionate hands you will become unstable and will not be able to ride the bike again. Unless it’s no different than what happens to the professionals behind the numbers, 24% are barely pedaling in sections like Cueña les Cabres. garage rampThey overcame this with the pressure of the audience.
Inside tourmalet or ventouxsomewhat well prepared, even enjoy the rise Admire the view on a sunny day and Vingegaard A la carte when you pass another slower cyclist. In Angliru you can only fight with yourself because sometimes it seems like you are not moving forward, so much so that it feels like you are standing still.
Do not breathe
You just hear breathe and sighThese are not ecstasy, but something like moans that require anesthesia to relieve the pain. Please let it end! You beg for the climb to end because it’s like you’re on a torture table. And if it rains let’s not say that asturias It’s no surprise then that the wheels are turning; Close it and let’s go.
When you reach the top, after taking a sip of the little water left in the bottle, you will be happy, the test is over, the pain is over and you can only think about two things: or you love this sport It is so beautiful and fascinating that it is called cycling after all or you have a problem. It’s better to stay in the first one.