It’s a holiday today in Dubai for Islamic New Year. I therefore decided to take it easy and set my alarm for a 4:00am start in order to wake up and head out to Shawka (near Fujairah) for an 85km cycle in the hills.
This was great fun and my first experience of riding on the roads, in such a large and friendly group and with support vehicles front and back to help keep us all moving and safe.
We climbed a total of 1,028m which is about 900m more than I have ever done in Dubai before. The weather was a little chilly when we started but as we headed back to the car park next to the Sharjah-Kalba Road the sun was on our backs and the temperature was heating up nicely.
Great fun, great scenery and a really nice change to do some climbing – my legs still hurt!