{"id":15415,"date":"2016-10-09T21:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T20:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=15415"},"modified":"2016-10-09T21:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T20:08:44","slug":"day-26-tercel-just-past-gilet-lifeday-25276","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=15415","title":{"rendered":"Day 26 Tercel to just past Gilet. Lifeday 25,276"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wrong view I should be up there!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A late start today due to me not waking up till twenty past eight, the hostel was as quiet as a morgue. I paid my \u20ac25 dues and started to load the bike up. When horrors I noticed a rear spoke had snapped \ud83d\ude41 the wheel still span OK if a bit wobbly, I made a mental note to steer clear of tracks today.<\/p>\n

The local panaderia made a delicious breakfast for \u20ac3 \ud83d\ude42 So I set of at 9.37 with a view of doing the 100 miles to Valencia, well I had 3,000 feet of vertical descent in my favour so I thought.<\/p>\n

First mistake of the day was finding myself \u00a0UNDER the bridge I was supposed to be crossing, a very fine bridge too. \u00a0I started climbing on the deserted N234 road when suddenly the programmed Strava route told me to do an abrupt left turn down a track \ud83d\ude41 and then down a steep 15% descent on loose gravel \ud83d\ude41 this was then followed by 4 miles of track riding through a forest with only runners looking on bemused. An abrupt left turn up a very steep slope took me onto the old railway line. Followed by amazing viaducts, cuttings, embankments & tunnels. Must have cost a fortune to built in 1907! Even more amazing is\u00a0a modern railway line runs parallel for most of the way with its own tunnels & cuttings.<\/p>\n

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The newer the bridge the lower down it is – I’m on the oldest taking the pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All the time I was ascending upto 4,000 feet on rough ground equals slow going, suddenly Valencia seemed a long way away \ud83d\ude41 I suspect using Strava for route creation is not sp good in areas of high MTB usage \ud83d\ude41 The downhill stretch of the line is even more amazing with gradients unheard of in UK railways. Just before Masias I rejoined the N234 and proceeded to bomb down the hills at high pace \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Just before Alger I left the N234, hopped across the tracks of the new railway \u00a0and rejoined the Via Verde, (I could see a hill coming up). rejoining the N234 before Torres Torres.<\/p>\n

\"1-2016-10-09-17-34-57\"<\/a>It was starting to get late so I got booking.com to find the cheapest and most local place. They gave me\u00a0the \u20ac25 a night Complejo Touristico La Pinada with its 25 metre outdoor pool etc. (water is about 20deg according to my white fingers after 8 lengths). Problem is there is no evening meal as such so it’s a Tortilla for me.<\/p>\n

So the ‘easy’ descent turned into a 3,931 feet of ascent as well \ud83d\ude41 and 83.7 miles according to Strava<\/a><\/p>\n

The pictures on dropbox here<\/a><\/p>\n

My heartrate is reaching new highs:<\/p>\n

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A late start today due to me not waking up till twenty past eight, the hostel was as quiet as a morgue. I paid my \u20ac25 dues and started to load the bike up. When horrors I noticed a rear spoke had snapped \ud83d\ude41 the wheel still span OK if a bit wobbly, I made […]<\/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-15415","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\/15415","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=15415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}