31-8-10 F.Vaqueros-Láchar-Peñuelas-C.Tajarja-Chimeneas-S.Catalina-P.Periurbano-Jau (IBP:67)

Training route. Headwind for nearly the entire stretch (up to the turn for the Cortijo de Santa Catalina), the muggy heat with the warm clouds and the desire to increase my average despite everything have punished me today in a way that is not normal for this route, which has no difficulty aside from the total length and the heat of the drylands in that area. Mostly on asphalt (from Cijuela to the turn for the Cortijo de Santa Catalina, it's all asphalt, but very, very quiet, that’s for sure), but the end is a path. I wanted to beat my maximum speed record and I did it, once again in the same old place, in the descent just before the mentioned cortijo: 78 km/h on the speedometer, and it can be improved, but today I was already too burned out and I gave up when I saw that I had surpassed the previous mark. The first downhill slope from the Castillo de Tajarja to Chimeneas also allows for a good amount of speed (that's where I had my previous maximum, 76 km/h). The most entertaining part of the route is the necessary loop through the Periurbano Park of Santa Fe, especially the path marked with a waypoint, and the super-fast descent from the park to Jau via the bike lane. At the beginning of the track, upon reaching Cijuela, I tried to avoid a stretch of asphalt by looking for an old familiar road to Láchar, but this year it's impossible, as I always find it full of mud and I didn't feel like starting the route that way, so I turned around (regardless of the rains, this year it’s always the same because of the careless irrigators).