Moments in Time

Have almost finished reading the book I’m currently enjoying which is "From Lance To Landis" by David Walsh. The book is about the American doping controversy at the Tour de France and I’ve really been enjoying reading it. The details of what was going on during that era is really shocking. I was very interested to read the details about the Australian blood doping expert Mike Ashenden and his mention of the value of blood lactate levels at specific workloads being of value, which is exactly how I use them, to measure carbohydrate dependence!

Interesting also in the book how Mike Ashenden essentially demolished the publication by Ed Coyle about Lance Amstrong’s development and how he put all his improvements down to improved muscular efficiency, cadence etc. My, how Coyle was conned!

11:47:28 No WiFi at the Duva so far today so not been possible to check any emails, hard to complain about this when at the present time it is a free service. Lorena’s cold not getting any better, worse if anything, such a shame.

14:49:22 Decided to spend a bit of time out by the pool where I thought I might get a better Internet connection and Evernote finally seems to be syncing which is good. Want to try to get Lorena’s diary function up and sorted and can’t do it until I get this working, fingers crossed. In the meantime Lorena is out catching some rays which I’m hoping will help her cold, or at least take her mind off it. Damned sync seems to have stopped again :-( Not sure what Evernote thinks it’s downloading but it seems to be taking ages.

17:43:22 Good meeting with Gabriel Esteppa this afternoon. Looks as if he is prepared to offer us a 25% discount on the stay if we stop either for a 4 week block or for 2x2 week blocks in 2015. This looks as if it would work out at about €42 per day for the apartment and then extra for the evening meal. On the face of it this looks like a good deal as it would mean that the cost of a month out here in May 2015 would pretty much be covered by our normal living expenses and pocket money so we wouldn’t really notice too much of a cost for such a long holiday. This offer certainly seems worth careful consideration and Gabriel is going to put some details into an email for us to look over and we will just have to cost up the flights. Interesting times ahead.

Had the usual baguette for lunch. Lorena tired so she went to sleep for a couple of hours whilst I read my book. Before we knew it once more it was time to get ready for dinner. Took a couple of selfies of the two of us using the X-Shot on the balcony just for the record :-)

Another nice dinner and so the show goes on!

Managed to find the route without too much trouble, some lovely properties overlooking the sea built into the cliffs. Strange large roads to nowhere up at the top which we found out later were built at a time when the area was going to be developed but the developments itself never happened. Spotted some young people up there on motorbikes and smoking marijuana, looks to be a local haunt.

There is a gate early on the route which is secured with a chain (photo) and Lorena and I both failed to solve the simple problem of lifting the chain to open the gate, opting instead to struggle to squeeze through a small gap, looks like both our mental faculties are deteriorating at the the same rate at least!

Didn’t walk right into CSV but turned back before the town itself as we didn't want to set back Lorena’s back at this early stage on the holiday as it was quite a climb back up to the top.

Rules and details about the gym at The Duva.