{"id":127,"date":"2015-06-15T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/rickpress\/?p=127"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:58:37","slug":"a-day-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/a-day-of-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not much interesting to say today. Only 60 km, averaging 4 kph (walking) to 48 kph. The selected route directly crosses the hills instead of following the contours, making the route really challenging. Not a lot of shade, and while I’ve avoided extreme sunburn, I am slowly basting.<\/p>\n

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By early afternoon I was beat, and didn’t really want to go on. So I didn’t. I found a field and took a nap under a tree. An hour later I felt much better. Still walking up hills, but still moving forward.<\/p>\n

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I stopped for water at a cafe today, and a family asked me to come over and share their lunch with them. I need to add to the FAQ, “How old are you?” It’s about the 3rd question asked each encounter, and then they all tell me their ages. <\/p>\n

I’m in a hotel again, having wandered the city a bit to select a hotel off the beaten path figuring it would cost less. It’s nicer than the last one, and at $11.50 how can I not stay?<\/p>\n

I hit this wall every trip; it just takes a while for everything to kick in. The miles, hills, sunburn, and some knee twinges are getting to me, so tomorrow is planned to be a rest day, with a bus trip to Edirne. I’ve also picked up some high-calorie snacks which should help, moving forward.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard everything on the Internet is more interesting with cats. Dogs are everywhere in the countryside, but in the cities cats rule here.<\/p>\n

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Not much interesting to say today. Only 60 km, averaging 4 kph (walking) to 48 kph. The selected route directly crosses the hills instead of following the contours, making the route really challenging. Not a lot of shade, and while I’ve avoided extreme sunburn, I am slowly basting. By early afternoon I was beat, and … Continue reading “A Day of Reality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}