Puente del Pilar (the weekend around October 12th): The original idea was to do a fundraising Tour of the Comunidad de Madrid, starting in Somosierra, right at the top, and take three days to ride to the bottom, at Estremera. It's still in the planning stages, but Moncho and I were thinking about how cool it would be to get a bunch of people together to ride and collect money ("Queremos cambio" / "We want change") for Descubre América, a charity Moncho's brother is involved in.
Length: Three days, about 120 km
Difficulty: Easy
....or there's always La Rioja. The middle two weeks of October mark the vendimia season, when the grapes are harvested - a bit of a nightmare for finding cheap accommodation, but what colour!
Puente de Todos los Santos (November 1st): Tough one, this one, since the beginning of November is when weather starts to get a bit dodgy. That said, there's always the possibility of doing the Ruta del Quijote, in Castilla-La Mancha. Southern Castile can get really hot during the summer, but if it hasn't rained, the dirt paths that constitut
e the 3,200-kilometre Ruta might make a good getaway.Puente de la Constitución (December 6th and 8th): This is the tricky one, since it means having to travel while everyone else in the country is also taking a long weekend. Personally, I'd like to try doing the Ruta de los Nazaríes that links Córdoba with Granada. I'd mentioned doing it to some other people last year, but ended up going back to Canada to visit my folks instead...if the weather holds out, it could be a great getaway before having to head into the cold of Canada the week after!
All of which means that while I'm planning this, I'm not riding. But such is life!
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