First Miracle of St Scot
Day 15 Castrojeriz to Carrion Miles (biking): 29.4 Elevation gain; 972’ Descent: 912’ Total Bike Miles: 55.0 Total Walk Miles: 187.7 Total Miles: 242.7 The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. John Howard First a very short synopsis of today’s biking. The weather was cool and cloudy with a good tailwind all day. Lots of gravel and bumpy paths. All of us suffered from sit bone pain today and the rough paths did nothing to relieve that! Less than a mile from Castrojeriz we met the first hill of the day...3/4’s of a mile long. All of our bikes began bucking about 300 yards into the hill and refused to be ridden any further. It was a long walk up the hill pushing our bikes with panniers. At the crest, the terrain leveled off for about 1/4 mile and then began a very steep and long downhill that the guidebook said was an 18 degree pitch. Fortunately it w...