{"id":15343,"date":"2016-09-30T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=15343"},"modified":"2016-09-30T19:39:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:39:49","slug":"day-18-biganos-french-leon-lifeday-25267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=15343","title":{"rendered":"Day 18 Biganos to the French Leon. Lifeday 25,267"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Hotel had a great buffet breakfast which I probably pigged out on \ud83d\ude41 Just not used to having a choice.<\/p>\n<p>Strava had decided to take me along roads rather than the more circuitous Atlantic cycleway. So not as pleasant riding with all the juggernauts, I worked out why I lost some of my average speed yesterday.The problem with taking the etrex on walkabout especially in supermarkets is that it still thinks I&#8217;m cycling \ud83d\ude41 So today I stopped at a bricolage to get some cable ties to mount the Etrex onto the bike frame \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Mimizan was a bit of an eye opener. I&#8217;ve never seen so many restaurants in such a small town. I guess in the summer this whole coast line is heaving given the number of camping sites &amp; holiday places. I ended up at the Post cafe as most places were\u00a0full. I think the omelette I chose really slowed me down in the afternoon as my poor stomach was digesting it.<\/p>\n<p>Once again the head wind appeared so by the time I reached Leon I decided to call it a day, especially since booking.com was only showing campsites or hideously expensive places. The Hotel du Lac de Leon doesn&#8217;t demean itself by using booking.com, just resorting to a small roadside sign \ud83d\ude42 Needless to say I think I&#8217;m the only guest tonight!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/729906027\">Strava says I did 67.7 miles <\/a>and 745 feet of climbing.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures will eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sc\/32tbygjl0j7tc5b\/AABqpwmnMJsbF-fHDwE30pLsa\">end up on dropbox<\/a>, <del>but the internet is as dated as the place.<\/del><\/p>\n<p>The Fitbit Blaze had a bad day only recording 108mins of heart rate \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15348\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Outdoor_Bike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15348\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Outdoor_Bike-1024x300.jpg\" alt=\"Heart rate for a bit of the day\" width=\"584\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Outdoor_Bike-1024x300.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Outdoor_Bike-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Outdoor_Bike-768x225.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Outdoor_Bike.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heart rate for a bit of the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Will update the post once I get on the internet!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Hotel had a great buffet breakfast which I probably pigged out on \ud83d\ude41 Just not used to having a choice. Strava had decided to take me along roads rather than the more circuitous Atlantic cycleway. So not as pleasant riding with all the juggernauts, I worked out why I lost some of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}