Leon - San Juan de los Lagos (Jalisco), 11.04.06

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Distance: 82 Km, Ascent: 345 m, Time: 3:09 hr, Avg Speed: 26 Km/hr, Max Speed: 60 Km/hr

Whole Tour (Mexico City - San Juan de los Lagos) GPS Cycling Data:

Distance: 480 Km, Ascent: 3000 m, Time: 18:06 hr, Avg. Speed: 26.52 Km/hr, Max Speed: 70 Km/hr.

Travel Report:

Leaving soon the hotel, we took the paid highway to San Juan, with a big (and beautiful) climbing just before the toll station. After that, we were only a mere 80 km from our final destination. The road is mainly plain.

At our arrival we headed immediately to the shrine in the center of San Juan, where a lot of cyclists were arriving. After a visit to the town and its several shrines, we took the bus that took us back home :-)

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Queretaro - Leon (Guanajuato), 10.04.06

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Distance: 178 Km, Ascent: 310 m, Time: 6:52 hr, Avg Speed: 25.9 Km/hr, Max Speed: 60 Km/hr

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We started the ride early, at about 06:00, taking soon the highway to León, Guanajuato. It was so early that it was still dark when we arrived at the toll station !

It was a smooth ride, mainly plain, but with some big toboggans at Irapuato and Silao. We arrived relatively early in León.

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Mexico City - Queretaro (Queretaro), 09.04.06

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Distance: 208 Km, Ascent: 1082 m, Time: 8:05 hr, Avg Speed: 25.7 Km/hr, Max Speed: 65 Km/hr

Travel Report:

This ride was the first stage of a three-stage cycling ride, spanning six states and a grand total of almost 500 km, in three days, covering the route Mexico City to San Juan de los Lagos, in Jalisco.

The purpose of the whole ride was to participate in the annual pilgrimage to visit the Lady of San Juan de los Lagos, departing from the Mexico City area. Although I am not a religious believer, I was interested in knowing the social phenomenon of a cyclist pilgrimage. And of course, I was also interested in participate in this cyclist pilgrimage in particular :-)

In the first day of the three involved, the route cycled was the paid highway to Querétero, from Mexico City. This was the longest and hardest stage of the three, as it involved a distance of 210 Km and an ascent of almost 1500 m.

Five cyclists started this ride from the Independence Angel in Reforma, taking later the road to Tlalnepantla and Cuautitlán. In the toll station of Tepoztlán we could find a lot of cyclists that were going to make the route.

Along the route there were a lot of trucks that were giving food and water to the cyclists :-)

After our arrival to Querétaro, we took time to visit this beautiful colonial city.

Thank you for reading. Till the next travel.