Tuesday 20th November, Theni.
I expected today to be an easy ride as it was a short distance of 65km and a descent from the mountains of over 1,000m. Of course it was not to be.
After 21km with no descent along a “road” which was more of a mountain track with sand, potholes, stones and boulders I was starting to wonder whether I would make it. Average altitude was maintained despite a strongly undulating route involving over 400m of climb. This took 3 hours.
Then crossing the border from Kerala to Tamil Nadu the descent started. And sagar a descent! 25 km from the mountains to the plains below.
A wonderful ride but not quite what I had been expecting.
A new record for altitude reached of 1,464m beating the previous record in Spain by about 300m.
Follow this downhill journey here.
Robert's Ride 18000 