Today's stage involved another 2800m & the forecast was grim. We joined the other panicking cyclists in pilfering plastic bags from supermarkets (feet) and purchasing 15 euro boil in a bag jackets from the hiking shop counting their lucky stars.
What was mildly pleasing today was that for once we are not the only people in pieces, at least 15 had to push most of the way up the first mountain (not me though but this is largely related to my deep antipathy to pushing my 'steel-esque' bike). 5 retired today & we suspect a lot didn't start as field vastly reduced.
Very wet, very cold, very muddy.We learned at first refreshment stop that course had been reduced due to 5" snow on mountain top. In the end we only had to do 700m more climbing & 20k.
So we live to die another day, very excited about rolling into finish at a sensible hour for once :)
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