Today WAS Sa Colabra day!
With a last minute decision to extend the bike hire one more day, and with flights booked later in the day, I set out to do a quick(ish!) smash and grab of Sa Colabra. It was a straight forward plan:
Smash it up the Femenia.
Down Sa Colabra.
Up Sa Colabra in a Strava record for 55-64 year olds (currently 29:41)
Celebration apple pie and coffee at the Repsol garage.
Drop back down the Femenia and back to Port de Pollenca.
And that's pretty much what happened, apart from:
Sa Colabra took me 34:39.
For 'apple pie' read 'cheesecake'.
It was a brutal ride up the Femenia in the teeth of a really strong wind, so by the time I got to Sa Colabra I was already running very low on energy and remember, this was day 4 of a planned 3 days cycling, but did this spoil the experience?
Not at all! Sa Colabra is amazing/bonkers/mad/ridiculous and I have no words to adequately describe the climb, but I do try in the videos below.
If you know - you know. If you don't - you need to get out there and do it!
So.....Mallorca 2023: DONE! (already looking forward to the next trip!)
Route there: https://www.strava.com/activities/10157856466
Route back: https://www.strava.com/activities/10158342973
