nickjones
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Cycling from Lorca to Velez Bianco
I woke up at the Felix Hotel in Lorca feeling dreadful. A bunged up nose, sore throat & gummy mouth the dreaded lurgy had returned again from my Taiwanese cycling Trip I still hadn’t made my mind up which way to go; the problem is that they have now made parts of the old road…
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Goodbye to Murcia & blog record set
Yesterday was an ‘admin’ day but since it was so warm & sunny I decided to fit in a little 20miler returning to Murcia via the lovely surfaced path alongside The Segura River. It was great to be in only shorts and T-shirt. I’ve really enjoyed staying in Murcia definitely my kind of place, not too…
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Brevet Randonneur 200K GDR Murcia 2018 Villena Yecla
Yesterday was the big day for my brevet Randonneur 200K GDR Murcia 2018 Villena Yecla, one of the main reasons for venturing a thousand miles South from the UK to escape the icy conditions of my previous two UK Audaxes in December & January, the weather in Murcia turned out as 9°C and 500m up…
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Licence for lolling around Murcia
Fri 9th Feb 2018 I’ve now had two very relaxing days in the sunshine here in Murcia preparing myself for the 200km Audax tomorrow if they let me do it without an ‘official license” whatever that might be. Murcia is a very pleasant University Town, 63 years younger than Cambridge but much larger with…
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Day 25,762 biking Alicante to Murcia
Wednesday 7th February 2018 What a relief, a day of wall to wall sunshine along super bikeways and quiet roads between Alicante & Murcia all be it with a bit to much chill in the air for my inadequate clothes 🙁 I left The Esplanade Hotel in Alicante after an OK breakfast and retrieving the bike from…
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Yet another 6 hours going south on a train.
I woke up and rode to Barcelona Station in yet more heavy rain 🙁 stopping for an excellent breakfast at Granier where I ate last night. I booked the €40.70 ticket to Valencia on trainline.com last night it arrived as a pdf that they said needed printing out at the station ticket machine. However, the RENFE …
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Back on the trains with my bike.
I woke up totally refreshed and the sheets hadn’t moved out of place all night. Today rain was scheduled and duly delivered 🙁 Ibis served an excellent buffet breakfast and I was soon on my way in the heavy rain to the main station just over 3 miles away according to my Strava. Once again…
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Biking from Avignon to Montpellier down the Rhone & Camargue
Lifeday: 25759 (70.525 yrs) Date Sun 4 Feb 2018 Location: Lattes, Montpellier, France A bit of a monster day especially with very limited food & drink (missing the ubiquitous 7Elevens of Asia) plus going astray several times. I left the hotel pretty late as I didn’t get to bed until after 1 am due to…
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A day on the trains with my bike.
Lifeday: 25,758 (70.523yrs) Date: Sat 3 Feb 2018 Location: Avignon, France I’ve been pondering where to go for my next bike trip now I’ve finally recovered from the dreaded lurgy. My swimming pals keep going on about the excellence of European high-speed trains and also Tony has been saying how much he enjoyed Lisbon, plus…
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Wahoo Elemnt GPS comparison for cycling
Now that I’m thinking of doing DIY Audaxes it’s become essential to have a 100% reliable GPS system to record an accurate gpx trail over the 12 or so hours that a 200km ride takes me so I thought I would give the Wahoo Elemnt a try. Of late I’ve had major problems with my Etrex20 turning off randomly (bad…