Plodding 4:51:16 [1] 24.29 km (11:59 / km) +1927m 8:35 / km
shoes: x talon 212 #2
day 1 of tenerife adventure.
Costa adeje sea level > vilaflor 1500m
Landed at lunchtime and by 1pm feet were in the sea ready for the off. 24 degrees at ground level so sweating buckets and was only pleasant from c600m high. first 7k was following the gr 131 that was on my German map but the cartographer was clearly a chancer as the marked gr 131 route on the ground started about 7 km in to his markings. anyhow I got the joys of wandering round a water treatment plant and a quarry.
Once up onto proper route was lovely ascending gradually through shrub to the pines.
knee was variable throughout, a bit of pain on the downhills (bbodes well) but okish on the uphill.
then tried to find the closest thing to mcdonalds in vilaflor and settled on a goat Burger.
feet bit mashed up afterwards. legs tired.