{"id":2957,"date":"2024-06-04T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2024-06-04T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:50:48","slug":"not-the-long-way-up-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=2957","title":{"rendered":"NOT THE LONG WAY UP DAY 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

700 km \/8000m complete. Still not half way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BandB in Lahinch came highly recommended, hosts Maura and Ronnie very pleasant and helpful, did a wash for us . The room was ok bar a shower which must have been the same age as me and had similar flow issues , initial hesitancy , poor stream and post shower dribbling. Impossible to shower in it. As this is a family blog I will defer the issues with the toilet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nice meal in \u201c Danny Mac\u2019s\u201d last night and a few beers. Early bed as usual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breakfast saw the usual pantomime when we declined the fry. Settled for porridge and Fried egg on toast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was lashing and blowing a gale when we left Lahinch ,can\u2019t say I was sorry to leave it. Full wet gear at the start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sleeping Joseph obviously awoke but seems to have rolled over as two hours later the rain stopped and the sun came out. Still blowing a gale in our faces mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scenery improved today as we went through the burren country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stopped first for coffee at an Irish design centre which seemed to have been designed to trap Americans into buying various tweed caps and knitted sheep after lulling them into a false sense of security with boats of crappucino (sic).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beautiful strand at Fanone but too rough to swim <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onwards towards Galway , stopping for delicious chowder in Monks of Ballyvaughan , need to go back there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Met a few Canadians along the road for the second time. They are doing a complete loop of Ireland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In other news <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saddle sore score 1\/6 \ud83d\udc4c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wordle 5\/6 \ud83d\ude14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matrimonial status mostly green with a few amber blinks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big luck to our colleague Tim Lewis who started the transatlantic way today. 2400km in 7 days \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also a mention to fellow cyclist Paddy Harty ( ex-mtb) who had a recent fall fracturing collar bone badly. Currently under the knife in Belfast. I hope the wine list in the UIC is up to scratch. expect an S works camber on the market soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heading for a swim now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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700 km \/8000m complete. Still not half way. The BandB in Lahinch came highly recommended, hosts Maura and Ronnie very pleasant and helpful, did a wash for us . The room was ok bar a shower which must have been the same age as me and had similar flow issues , initial hesitancy , poor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1332-large.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}