day 5: 5-may-2016

Today is cinco de mayo. Ooops, wrong spanish-speaking culture. In fact, Jaime says that cinco de mayo is to mexicans like st. patrick's day is to the irish: it's an american-concocted holiday designed mostly to promote the native culture and drink beer.

After breakfast and the route review, Itzy lead us in a five-minute yoga/pilates warm up. I haven't stretched after this week's rides so it was a welcome opportunity to loosen up before getting on the bike.

More villages and more spectacular scenery. It was yellow jersey day.

Itzy and Andrea gave us the option to add an additional 10K to our ride today. Kelly and Jose, two young doctors from Virginia joined us. Kelly was super detail-oriented so she was our ride leader on the extension.

Jaime rode ahead to get this picture of us. Mike and I wisely let them pull.

Here we are at the Mediterranean.