Day 7 - a "sprint" to the finish (Thank Goodness We Are DONE!!!!!)

Kigali never looked so good!!!  We cruised home after some early work today, ripping off the last 15km in a wonderful snake line of 13 at a good 25-29kmh clip except when we hit a small (of course!) last climb to Scripture Union HQ in Kigali.  Today was the fastest pace of the week and in light of it - my heart rate averaged only 128bpm.  The body is amazing how it adjusts to what you are doing as I have never had such a ride in Spain!!  This was over 137km at an average rate of 24.8kmh no less!!  Bizarre!!

Final totals for the 7 days were 794.2km, 14,378m of climbing and the most mind (errrr - ass) numbing statistic of all.............37 hours and 45 minutes of MOVING TIME on the bike!!!  Ugh!!!

Our legs had little time to fully rest after the ride as we were hosted by the British Ambassador to Rwanda at the British Embassy (called something else officially - but same function!).  Some great steak on a stick there along with ample supply of Heineken made for a great evening finish to a tough week.  THANK YOU UK!!!

As always a crowd of the curious for the curious looking

Some final day fun!!

Makes you want to just curl up and lie!

Huge shout out to Rakiki, our "guide" for the week and one of the original 5 members of Africa is Rising, Team Rwanda Cycling Team (finished 2nd in 2012 Tour de Rwanda)