Cycling route: Malaga > Puerto de Leon > Puerto de Colmenar > Puerto de Comares
Distance: 109km
Elevation gain: 2469m
Elevation max: 991m
Road bike route description
The Super 8 is a perfect route to train your climbing skills, but pay attention to the 6 passes you will ascend during a bit more than 100km ride.
Warm up your legs on N-340 till the famous fisherman village El Palo, where you will turn left to join the A 7001 direction Olias. From here a prolonged climb to Puerto de Leon, but before you will accumulate altitude passing Olias Pass and Puerto de Bolina (attention, short section of 17%) to reach the Venta Galwey, where we will turn right to join A-7000 till Colmenar. First 3 passes done!
Start descend to Colmenar, passing Colmenar take A-7204 to Riogordo, where you can take the brake, fill bottles with fresh water or just eat your banana. Continue to Benamargosa on MA-3107 on a rolling route and stop in Benamargosa (if not did before) for a break before the climb starts again. After taking fuel and spoke to your inner motivation coach, cycle back on MA-3107 to reach the cross to Comares, take left to Comares on MA-3105 and start to suffer:) The first 5 kms will appears you like a small nightmare, but no worries, only this part is hard to climb with 2-digit percentage of gradient. After passing the Village of Comares, the ascent will become human again.
Continue till A-7001 (same road you have climb at the beginning of this route) and on the cross of the roads turn right to climb again to Lions Pass (Puerto de Leon). Reaching Venta El Galwey turn left to join A-7000 to descent directly to your start point – 20km of rock-n-roll and your main prize of all your suffering from the climbs.
