Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Mountainbiking..

Last weekend did with poveda mountainbinking. We started from Oviedo, then went throughout Envigado until "La Catedral" which is the place where Pablo Escobar built his famous jail (Getting up there was hard, everything was a hill and I wasn't in the best shape plus that it was raining), now you can't see anything of it, except a new house that was built above it (Honestly, I wouldn't have built in that zone..., kind of bad energy though).



The zone up there is now a Natural Area, so it was kind of funny to find a goat in the main gate as a pet.
She was looking into our stuff trying to get something to eat, we gave her some banana but she didn't like it at all.

After a short rest we continue biking, and this time we started to go down the mountain using as road what is widely know in Colombia as a "horseshoe road" or "camino de herradura". It was full of mud everywhere, we could hardly bike on it... After a couple of hours descending from 2,147 meters we arose the 1,500 meters in Caldas (pretty far away from medellin considering that we were tired, hungry and wanting to get home). My ass was in pain after that kind of muddy down hill.

After another rest, we started heading towards Medellin. Considering that we were in Caldas our shortest path would include passing by "La Estrella" followed by "Sabaneta" then "Envigado" and finally "El Poblado" to get to our beloved destination.

The funny thing is that when we were arriving (1 km remaining aprox) poveda's bike got a deflated tire !! We were so tired that we decided to walk instead of changing it...., after a hundred of meters we found a gas station were we replaced the tire and filled it with air.., then we continued our journey.., and finally we were able to say: "Home...., Sweet home...".

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