

{"id":39705,"date":"2021-06-23T10:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=39705"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:06:22","slug":"day-1083-ban-phathoung-to-thakhek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/day-1083-ban-phathoung-to-thakhek\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1083 &#8211; Ban Phathoung to Thakhek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Day 1083&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8th July 2019<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">40 miles(Ban Phathoung to Thakhek ) Average speed 12 mph<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A good day even if mostly into a headwind.<br \/>\nI got up late at 10 and after two large coffees courtesy of the staff kettle, I packed and had omelette with rice.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39769\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39769\" class=\"wp-image-39769 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/9372-8-7-19-road-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/9372-8-7-19-road-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/9372-8-7-19-road.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cloud cover and a good road<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I left at 12.15 and hit the road. It was fairly flat and if anything mostly downhill. There was good cloud cover most of the time and with ice from the restaurant I didn\u2019t need to stop, so apart from one shower, which I avoided under a shelter, the day was fairly easy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-39770 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/9383-8-7-19-view-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/9383-8-7-19-view-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/9383-8-7-19-view.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I stopped for a bottle of seven up with ice and headed for the green climbing centre. I shot past it and went back 1.3 miles only to find it closed due to the monsoon season. Unfortunately the people working on the chalets neglected to tell me it was closed and I rode through sandy wet dirt tracks to find out. I disturbed a small snake and used their toilet before finding my way back to the road.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39771\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39771\" class=\"wp-image-39771 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/9384-8-7-19-evening-view-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/9384-8-7-19-evening-view-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/9384-8-7-19-evening-view.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening view<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hostel bike and bed 55000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1083&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 8th July 2019 40 miles(Ban Phathoung to Thakhek ) Average speed 12 mph A good day even if mostly into a headwind. I got up late at 10 and after two large coffees courtesy of the staff kettle, I packed and had omelette with rice. I left at 12.15 and hit the road. &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/day-1083-ban-phathoung-to-thakhek\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/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":[2829,2832,2831],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ermintrude","post-39705","format-standard","category-spc_blog","post_tag-ban-phathoung","post_tag-day-1083","post_tag-thakhek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705","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=39705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39773,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705\/revisions\/39773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snailpacecycling.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}