The elevation profile of the ride from <PERSON> to Madrid was one big climb of around 800m over 25km then mostly downhill for the next 75km. We chose to ride the uphill section on dirt roads and singletrack as riding uphill on paved roads is really boring and the scenery in the mountains was lovely. We then joined up with the road, which had a separated cycle lane and it made the ride into Madrid really simple. It helped that due to the developing coronavirus situation there was almost no traffic on the road.