Before leaving Yarumal, I got one more surprise. I had understood that Yarumal was almost all the way at the top in terms of altitude and there would just be one more section of climbing closer to Medellín. When getting my bike ready, I started talking with some locals. They informed me that once I left Yarumal that it would 29 km all uphill. They were correct. The grade was not steep; I was able to do it, but it was a lot of climbing and I was starting to have difficulty with the altitude.
By the time I got to Los Llanos, I was beat; but I did not realize just how beat. When I stopped at the hotel in Los Llanos, I felt like I had “burned” my lungs a bit. It seemed as if all of the heavy breathing of air that was dry and lacking oxygen dried out my lungs. I did not feel right.
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