Day 3 24 June 2013 Ajaccio to Calvi 145 km 6 mountain climbs 1x2 1x3 and 4x4 cat.
The strategy was to slow down and to some extent this has worked for Nick but Matt’s knee is still worse. He has seen the physio and has fiddled with his cleats. It is strange before he left it was his right knee causing problems, now this is OK but he has pain on the left. Today’s ride was shorter but with about 2.5km of vertical ascent it was just what a rider needs for a bad knee!
The strategy was to slow down and to some extent this has worked for Nick but Matt’s knee is still worse. He has seen the physio and has fiddled with his cleats. It is strange before he left it was his right knee causing problems, now this is OK but he has pain on the left. Today’s ride was shorter but with about 2.5km of vertical ascent it was just what a rider needs for a bad knee!
Many of the riders said today was their best day ever on a bike. The weather was a little cooler but it was mainly sunny. Look out for day 3 on the real Tour de France, if the weather is good it will make a sunning spectacle. The multicolored peloton flashing along the deep orange cliffs atop turquoise water will really show off the magic of Corsica.
One of the other riders crashed and wrote off his bike whilst descending a col and 6 other riders all from the same group all picked up punctures from tacks on the road. I am not entirely convinced that they like cyclists here, some drivers toot their horns and shout encouragement and others are less helpful.
Nick had a very scary moment coming down the Col de Marsolino today. Fortunately he was on a straight bit of road when at 40+kph, there was a noise like a can of Coke opening - he knew it was a puncture but he did not know which wheel so he waited to see how the bike would respond then applied rear brake to bring it under control. He found a large hole in his inner tube of his front wheel but could find nothing in the tyre. He has resolved to come downhill much more slowly in future.
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