The Ma-1044, End to End

Mallorca route guide · Palma & Southwest

Riding The Ma-1044, End to End

One road, ridden as the one road it is. The Ma-1044 climbs out of Palma, crosses the Gènova gate where the Ma-1045 and Ma-1046 leave it, and falls again to Sant Agustí and the coast road — 5,462 metres of ride out of 6,795 metres of numbered tarmac, because a one-way couplet is counted twice by the register and ridden once by a rider. Four roundabouts, a bridge deck over the motorway, and a suburb that turns from apartment blocks to villas to compound walls and back again.

This point-to-point line covers 5.5 km, from Santa Catalina toward the gate toward the Avinguda de Joan Miró.

This is coastal Mallorca rather than a generic blue horizon: the road’s relationship with coves, cliffs, ports, stone retaining walls, and open water is what defines it.

Captured in muntro

Relief, gradient, and how to pace it

The profile is restrained by Mallorca standards: 88 m separates its lowest and highest points. The interest comes from rhythm, surface changes, exposed straights, and the way the road moves through the landscape rather than one headline climb.

Ride the early gradients a shade below the effort you think you can hold. The broken rhythm rewards cadence changes and short, controlled pressure rather than repeated spikes above threshold.

Points to watch for

The best Mallorca routes are remembered as a sequence of places, not as a GPX line. These are the changes of scene that organise this ride.

1. 01

   Plaça del Pont

   The route rolls away from Plaça del Pont, giving you a few minutes to find cadence and read the road ahead.

2. 02

   Santa Catalina

   Santa Catalina is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

3. 03

   the gate

   the gate is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

4. 04

   the Avinguda de Joan Miró

   the Avinguda de Joan Miró is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

5. 05

   98 m high point

   At 98 m high point, the elevation trace reaches its ceiling before the road releases the height it has earned.

Why this road works indoors

muntro does not flatten the Ma-1044, End to End into a workout backdrop. The route’s bends, height, and junction order come from the road itself, while a compatible trainer reproduces the changing gradient under your pedals.

The point-to-point format gives the session a destination. There is no need to invent a finish when the real road already has one.