{"id":2745,"date":"2016-09-16T17:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2016-09-16T17:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:07:25","slug":"day-47-arnedillo-to-garray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/day-47-arnedillo-to-garray\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 47 – Arnedillo to Garray"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 47\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\/9\/16<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

45 very tough miles Average speed 8.7 mph Top speed 32.6 mph<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After a good nights sleep I started the day in the thermal bath down by the river. Had another shower at the hotel just because I could! Coffee and croissant followed with a newspaper report of fires
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Report of a fire in Huarte – north east of Pamplona<\/p><\/div>\n

and I’m just about to set off at midday having checked emails. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This was a very tough day on the legs. I needed those spa waters to do their magic! It was a great start following the main road and it was downhill to Enciso. Then a climb up to over see the city and had lunch overlooking the new dam. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Overlooking town of Enciso<\/p><\/div>\n

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Then it was ok into a small town where I stopped for a Fanta lemon and checked out the route because satnav didn’t look promising on the hills front.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It proved to be right. I climbed up to 1478 metres. It took 3 hours for just my first 20 miles. I found it tough but motor bikers coming the other way gave me fist pumps of encouragement. Just when I thought I’d made it there was another climb around the next bend. It was a real sense of achievement when I finally got to the top.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Not sure which hill this one is! – but it’s a good view<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I had an incredible run down. I was getting really tired and stopped in Garray to watch bathers in river Duero.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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River Duero, Garray<\/p><\/div>\n

Cycled around looking for my first wild camp. Then heard crowd and followed noise until I found San Jose playing Real Avila 2-0 to San Jose.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Real Avila 0 – 2 San Jose<\/p><\/div>\n

I only saw the second goal, there were 300 fans and the ref sent off the Avila manager.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Real Avila<\/p><\/div>\n

I didn’t pay! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Went to tourist office and they insisted I had a map of the campsite I was originally going to but their printer took forever so he drew me a map. Went to a bar and waited for the sun to go down. Now here I am too close to a motorway and houses but I have water on tap. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Wild camp<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wild camp<\/p><\/div>\n

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It’s quite nerve racking to wild camp but I managed to get some sleep. A truly incredible ride and very exhilarating day. My first stealth camp and I survived! I deserve a day off.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 47\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\/9\/16 45 very tough miles Average speed 8.7 mph Top speed 32.6 mph After a good nights sleep I started the day in the thermal bath down by the river. Had another shower at the hotel just because I could! Coffee and croissant followed with a newspaper report of fires and I’m just … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[358,363,364],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ermintrude","post-2745","format-standard","category-spc_blog","post_tag-arnedillo","post_tag-day-47","post_tag-garray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}