Day 1:

Before take-off one can already see the different size of our luggage.

After arriving at the airport of Palma de Mallorca and receiving all our bags we started our journey to the hotel by bus with a little delay. Unluckily we were the last who were dropped off at our hotel; hence it was almost 5 o’clock when we entered the hotel’s front door. After we got our key at the reception we entered our room. We immediately noticed a very cold and humid climate in our room. We were in a hurry the get our bikes from a local store so we did not have time to think a lot about it.
The two Canyon Roadlite AL, one in size XS (with SRAM shifting) and the other in size L (with Shimano 105 shifting), were quite nice, even though the service at Active Mallorca was not very good. If we had not said anything the guy there would have let us go with only 2 bars in our tires. Moreover, we had to do all adjustments on our bikes for ourselves.
At dinner we got to know a guy from Mark Hartmannsdorf and received some important tips for the time while we are here. He told us that there are wet conditions in the hotel rooms according to missing radiators in the whole hotel.

Day 2:

After our first breakfast we left the hotel with the Styrian guy at 10 o’clock to go on our first tour.We left Can Picafort towards Arta, to come to the monastery of Betlem. After we refilled our bottles from a special fountain near the monastery, we took the small road back to Arta and then to Capdepera and Son Servera towards Porto Cristo.

Then we took the way back home via Manacor to Can Picafort.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During taking some pictures of a goat …

… I dropped my phone and destroyed its display …

 

After this I additionally did 2,3k swim in a public swimming pool near Can Picafort.

 

 

Day 3:

The weather was getting a little better. Our plan was to do a tour with less altitude so that we would have enough energy left for the whole week. After the breakfast we rode our (rent) bikes to Petra, Santa Maria and Sa Pobla. At the end of the day we had 120km and 627m difference in altitude on our bike computer.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

After this I once again went to the swimming pool and did a 3k swim.

Day 4:

It was a cloudy but still warm Monday morning and today we wanted to do a larger tour. I found tour shaped like an eight from Can Picafort  via Esporles to Palma de Mallorca and via Orient and Alcudia back. A tour that has 171km and some altitude meters as well.

 

Day 5:

The weather got worse and the previous trainings session made us feel tired on this morning nevertheless, we did a short tour this morning to Cap Formentor.

At first there was just wind and low temperatures but no rain. The closer we came towards the northwest cape the heavier it rained.  The wind got stronger and it was not very comfortable out there. We took some pictures and returned our tour back home to the hotel.  Back in the hotel we got another 101km. We were very happy with the amount of training we have done until the half of the trainings-camp.