{"id":16517,"date":"2017-04-02T13:53:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=16517"},"modified":"2017-04-02T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T12:53:47","slug":"glorious-biking-between-nakdongni-and-oxpomyeon-on-lifeday-25451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=16517","title":{"rendered":"Glorious biking between Nakdongni and Oxpomyeon on lifeday 25,451"},"content":{"rendered":"
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High security bike lockers at Motel 3F<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I woke to thick mist over the river but every sign it was going to be a great day. I wasn’t as starving as I thought I would be after my two fried eggs and small bowl of rice for dinner. Well it is a big beef growing area \ud83d\ude41 It’s really surprising how local meat products are in Korea).<\/p>\n

I was quickly away popping into town for some bread goodies and a choccy bar with a bottle of coffee, surprisingly tasty \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The cycleway is virtually 100% of the way, beautifully smooth with lots of boardwalks on stilts in the river going around the headlands instead of up and over – much easier biking. A minor problem was a lack of cafes although once I got to Gumi there was a street market of food vans, they insisted on selling a minimum\u00a0of 3 sweetcorns \ud83d\ude41 just like the shops will only sell you 4 bananas! \u00a0Crossing the river in Simi Dong I found a real cafe \ud83d\ude42 the sun was getting hot so I exposed my legs and arms to the sun for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

Approaching Daegu I took the magnificent boardwalk along the river, with a few hundred other folks too \ud83d\ude42 at the crossing it was amazing to see a whole panoply of battery devices from Segway knock offs, \u00a0battery driven scooters with huge tyres etc etc a real holiday atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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Electron Valley Gumi City sculpture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I couldn’t face going into the huge town and I was getting on so well, I just love biking in the sun \ud83d\ude42 so I skipped the town and kept on the opposite bank. At the huge bridge with a narrow cycleway I stupidly kept following the 4 River signs which were obviously for folks wanting to go in the city! So I turned the maps on and did a nice loop back to the correct direction!<\/p>\n

The stress of that and seeing a long empty path ahead with over 90km on the clock made me turn off to find a motel in Oxpomyeon. I saw the modern looking Motel Inus\u00a0which is good, next to a 7-11 and dumpling shop \ud83d\ude42 I was a bit worried about the lack of a restaurant but I followed the vast queue of cars going down the cherry tree blossom road and lo and behold there was a huge fair underway with one of the stalls selling vegetable pancakes & beer \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Strava says I did 57.7 miles <\/a>at a good speed of 11.3mph which with all the photo stops is good (OK I had the wind behind me most of the time). Tomorrow could be the end of the trail in Busan!<\/p>\n

The days pics are here<\/a><\/p>\n

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I woke to thick mist over the river but every sign it was going to be a great day. I wasn’t as starving as I thought I would be after my two fried eggs and small bowl of rice for dinner. Well it is a big beef growing area \ud83d\ude41 It’s really surprising how local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biking","category-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517","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=16517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}