And they’re off!

Tour of the Douro riders in front of the Bodegas Roda winery preparing for the official off, including our guest rider Victor Charcan from Roda! What laid before then was 85 kilometres including 900 metres of climbing to a max altitude of 1200m above sea level traversing the Sierra de la Demande mountain range as we left the Ebro Valley depression and La Rioja behind us and entered the Duero/Douro Valley catchment area.

The peloton clicked smoothly into place and stayed together until the mountain road kicked up…..

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