Well we awoke again today to clear blue skies and a light breeze just to keep the clouds off the mountains.

The temperature had dropped a little so arm and knee warmers were the order of the day at least until it warmed up a little.

The route today was going to be a fully made up affair as the weather forecast had not been good for later on in the day so we would make the route up as we went along.

We took the bay road out and then on to the garden road pnto the caves road and through Campanet and onto Alaro, from here we picked up a tail wind and the speed shot up to over 30mph for more than 8 miles until we reach Santa Maria where we had to stop to refuel.

The refuelling which is as much as a part of our training as the riding took place in a lovely little cafe outside in the sun. Today as seems to follow the last couple of days it was a long drawn out affair and lasted the best part of 2 hours (well with the sun out and a few chicas to look at who can blame us)

With the lunch stop finally over it was back home we headed and it was to be a race against time as the weather as forecast was now closing in on us fast and the temperature had dropped a few degrees.

We headed on though and back through Sencells, Sineu, Llubi and then we headed onto some semi surfaced farm roads just to keep out of the ever increasing head wind (excellent training for the up and coming Paris Roubaix) onto Sa Pobla and onto the all too familiar Marshes road, it was here that the speed shot up and the race for home began.

With the marshes safely negotiated it was onto the bay road and home.

No riding :o( although we had always planned today to be a rest day we were at least hoping to get a few miles under our belts.

The weather today has been the worst I have seen in 11 years of coming to the island :o(

The bay road has at least 2" of sand on it and the wind is currently coming in at 120kph and battering the whole of the island even dumping a covering of snow in some places. Just like home from what I hear.

So it is you find me in the bar of the hotel with a bottle of San Miguel writing to you.

Salud as they say in Espana :o)

 Thursday 6th March
With yesterday's howling wind subsided and also the covering of snow on the mountain tops cleared today was going to be a day to get some serious miles in.
We headed out of Pollenca on the road to Lluc where we would tackle the climb up past the Monastery and onto Selva.
Now for some reason that I can't quite find at the moment, I have no climbing legs and I was a full 10 minutes behind the other guys who had been patiently waiting for me at the petrol station.
We soon descended Selva and through Caimari and then onto and through Inca. It was on our way through Inca that a stop at the top of Santa Magdelena would indeed be another great stop so off we trundled up this very lovely 3.5km climb.
After the feeding and watering had taken place a quick route home was the order of the day as the temprature had developed a chill in the air.
We took a few back roads that I know and headed back down onto the Caves road which we did in reverse for a change.
A quick blast along the last couple KM's of the bumps road and we were all soon lined out and heading into Pollenca for the sprint finish.
Now you haven't heard much about our daily sprinting activities but rest assured they still do happen and I have managed to bag a couple myself, including today's one.
We got back to the hotel just before the skies turned grey and threatened us with rain again.
Not a bad ride today 65 miles in total in changeable weather conditions.
Friday 7th March
Oh no!!!! Rain !!! :o( being quite hopeful it would stop before it got to lunchtime we all stayed within the hotel.
It soon became all too apparent that the weather had other ideas and that owing to the dangerous nature of the roads when they are wet that we all resigned ourselves to another day of non riding.
This has never happened to me before having to take 2 days off the bike in the same week, and for the boys who were only here for a week it really was a soul destroying day.
Saturday 8th March
Just as soon as the rain arrived it left leaving, behind clear blue sunny skies although a little chilly.
We waved our friend off and set about getting ready for today's ride, it was going to have to be an epic one as we were so short of miles.
We headed out of town and through to Sa Pobla where we picked up the Water Pipe road all the way through to Binisallem where we took a quick stop to look in the local bike shop Gomilla's
With this behind us we set off for Algadia and then onto the climb up to Randa.
This is quite a nice 5.5km climb to the top where you have amazing views of the whole of the island.
We soon descended and were all in need of some food so we headed into the town of Lluck Mayor, where we found a perfect little cafe.
Rested & watered it was time to head for home and we needed to do it quite quickly as the rain clouds looked as though they were rolling in again.
We gave it some beans for the off and were soon rolling along in the mid 20mph zone quite easy with the KM's ticking by it was a refreshing change to have a tail wind.
Then once again the heavens opened and dumped an enormous amount of rain on us and turned all the roads into ice rinks.
A very kind group going the other way shouted at us to mind the roads as there had been an accident just down the road so that scrubbed a couple of MPH of our speed.
With the roads now having been turned into flowing torrents it was inevitable that someone would pick up a puncture. This happened within 15km's of home followed very quickly 2km's down the road by another and then the final one came within 3km's of home.
All ion all a very good ride today, we managed to squeeze in 102 miles with a rather impressive 19.8mph average.
Well one more day to go and I will be heading back to the sunny shores of England.
Catch up with you all later for the final instalment :o(