Cycling up Mount Olympus – Cyprus

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Mount Olympus. Okay, so Mount Olympus um south of Cyprus. It’s about 31k up to the top. Car coming. I’ll put the elevation on the screen, but the mountain tops out at about just shy of 2,000 m. So, it’s decent climb. The climb we’re on, it’s about 27k to the top. About 5.5% I think 6%. So, it’s near enough and al um I’ve done some bigger ones in France, but it’s a lot warmer here. It’s about 25° now. Still early. It’s like 8:00 a.m. Um, it’ll get cooler as we go up and then bomb down. But I haven’t done this before. Um, first time we’re approaching it from the north side up this like really nice valley. Sun still isn’t over yet. Roads are obviously amazing. So yeah, it should be good. See what goes on. I thought I’d film this one cuz it’ll be cool to look back on and I can’t imagine there are many YouTube videos of Olympus. I tell this will be your biggest climb. How How do you feel? I’m a bit apprehensive, but looking forward to it. It’s like a Mediterranean Alp. This is the lift. Ah yeah. So a lift restaurant. So like a chair ski lift type thing or producer in MTV. Yeah. I was uh driving. I was taking people from there also. Har. Yeah. Also I 10k in salad. How you feeling? I’ll make it. I’ll make it. Slow. It’s so pretty. It’s probably like what, 32°? Something like that. Yeah. Nice breeze though. Cannot wait to bomb down here. This is lovely. It’s like um it’s like Spain on steroids. Oh, really? Better than Spain. Well, it’s like um it’s like the French like Alpiz vistas. Yeah. and French-sized roads, but then like Mediterranean weather. Yeah. And no cars. Okay, Sally, we’re at about 1,000 m sea level. We’ve got under about 950 m to climb more. Halfway? Yeah. So, we’re about halfway. These roads though. Yeah. [Applause] already 9 in the morning. It’s nice though. Sad for Christmas. Come see anyone. Right. So, 17K done, 10K to go. How you feeling? Feeling good. Feeling good. Yeah. Yeah. Feeling good. Feeling good. Nice. 8K to the top. Sit. Yep. Now it kicks up. This is top left. Yeah. Right. We got 4 and a halfk to the top which is about 1k is downhill. Oh, okay. 1k downhill. But again, Sally Sally stopped replying, which means he’s an owl. But we’ve done 1,700 meters of elevations out there. We’re nearly up. That’s the heavens, isn’t it? Yeah. In space yet. I’m going to have some mega views in a minute. Right. That’s the top there, Sally. Those poles. Yeah. Last 2K and go for a dig. Why not? Go on, Sal. You’re finished. You’re done. 1924 m. We done. 1,926 m. Make it 15. Look at that. [Laughter] Dude’s barbecuing in the in the road. Look at that. €22. Right. Had a coffee. We’ll be coming down. Now we go down. 1,900 odd meters. Um, so 27 km down. So probably take 20 minutes. 2 and 1 half hours up. 20 minutes down. Another one. Right. Here we go. We’re going down. Oh my god. Thank you. [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music]