The flat TT loop from Girona

This is not a sightseeing ride. It is the loop we use when the session is the point: twenty kilometres of steady warm-up out to Sant Jordi Desvalls, then a long, flat, open stretch where you can hold a position and a number without a junction breaking it up, and five kilometres of easy spinning to come home.

Three hundred metres of climbing in fifty-five kilometres tells you most of what you need to know. The surface is good, the traffic is light, and the wind is the only thing out here that will argue with you. Bring the TT bike if you have one.