{"id":15354,"date":"2016-10-02T21:49:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=15354"},"modified":"2016-10-02T21:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:49:38","slug":"day-20-espelett-pamplona-lifeday-25269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=15354","title":{"rendered":"Day 20 Espelett to Pamplona Lifeday 25,269"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-img_6734\"<\/a>The evening meal at Chilhar was magnificent way more than my stomach, used to its simple life, \u00a0could handle so I had a disturbed night’s sleep \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Breakfast was equally outstanding, which was good as today was crossing The Pyrenees so I needed to be fit. Whilst loading up the bike the hotel’s cycling neighbour and the hotelier proceeded to muse about which way I should go \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

In the end I settled for the route generated by Strava. The first 500ft climb awaited me round the corner \ud83d\ude42 Dropping down to the Spanish border at Dantxaria I noticed large groups of cyclists heading into the Venta Paco cafe, so I joined them. Crikey was it crowded with very fit men (no women) on their expensive bikes. I had my Coke and just as well as it was the last cafe for a while. Then it was up the 1800ft climb (I thought i was the main climb \ud83d\ude41 ) which I did OK with a long drop down to Truita. In the square there was a old fashioned village shop where I could buy a coke and crisps. Thinking to myself that was easy…<\/p>\n

Alas, the 3000 foot brute was still to come, a never ending \u00a0zig zag climb up the Erreka valley finally ending at The Arteslaga Col at 984 metres a 2 hour climb without seeing a single cyclist.<\/p>\n

The downhill is clearly magnificent and one of the reasons I love cycling so much over walking. Although the red\/white markings where the GR12 crossed at the col made me feel nostalgic.<\/p>\n

Even more nostalgia as I crossed into Pamplona on the same Camino bridge which I used\u00a0exactly 12 years ago when I walked The Camino to celebrate my retirement and my first long walk.<\/p>\n

Tonight I’m in the budget\u00a0Alojamientos Olga to try and average out last nights splurge \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Strava reveals the facts of my mega day 6,692 feet of ascent! in 57.8 miles<\/a>\u00a0and 6hr 15min \ud83d\ude42 which compares very favourably to our Teide ascent <\/a>\u00a0of 8,806ft in\u00a051.1mi in 5hr 45min.<\/p>\n

My poor heart suffered and you can see it peaked at 135bpm. I managed to get the Blaze to stay on for the whole activity too:<\/p>\n My heart rate crossing Pyrenees\n

compare to elevation profile<\/p>\n Elevation profile\n

A few pics are here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The evening meal at Chilhar was magnificent way more than my stomach, used to its simple life, \u00a0could handle so I had a disturbed night’s sleep \ud83d\ude41 Breakfast was equally outstanding, which was good as today was crossing The Pyrenees so I needed to be fit. Whilst loading up the bike the hotel’s cycling neighbour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-europe","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15354","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=15354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}