La Barroca and Susqueda from Girona
The ride
Ninety kilometres west into the Guilleries, and the profile tells you what kind of day it is: two very long drags and a sting at the end. The road up to La Barroca climbs for the best part of twenty kilometres at under two per cent, never steep enough to hurt, never flat enough to rest, which is its own kind of hard.
Susqueda is the high point of the route at six hundred metres, above the reservoir of the same name. The way home crosses the Llémena valley and finishes over Mas Llunès, two kilometres that feel considerably longer at the eighty-kilometre mark.
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Layer 3Coffee stop
Nothing on the road itself on this one. The Girona stops below are the ones that work: before you leave, or when you get back.
Before and after, in Girona
This one starts and finishes in the city, so the Girona cafés work either end: a coffee while the group gathers, or brunch when you get back.
Featured segments
The three efforts of the day, in the order you meet them: La Barroca, Susqueda and, with eighty kilometres in the legs, Mas Llunès.
