{"id":3223,"date":"2024-06-12T16:54:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T16:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2024-06-12T19:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:27:25","slug":"not-the-long-way-up-day-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=3223","title":{"rendered":"NOT THE LONG WAY UP DAY 14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The penultimate day \ud83d\ude33. Weather held but trying not to look at tomorrow\u2019s forecast..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great night in Ardara lovely B N B (the Atlantic lodge 10\/10) , early start as planned to get Buncrana  ferry and did not want to do a \u201cdoc Lewis\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The run out of ardara right up to glenveagh national park was on small back roads and a lot of cycle way , we opted to cut through the park , a bit of proper gravel but nothing the babyshoe pass tyres \ud83d\ude0d couldn\u2019t handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The park run was awesome ! stopped with pat at bike hire who let us use track pump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"3208\" src=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1737-large-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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The climb up from ballymacstocker strand was a bit of a shocker ! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"3216\" src=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1756-large-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1756-large-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1756-large-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1756-large-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img 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src=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1767-large-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1767-large-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1767-large-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1767-large-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3219\" src=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1769-large-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1769-large-768x1024.jpg 768w, 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He\u2019d never been in Buncrana despite working on ferry all his life. \ud83d\ude06. I think that makes the three B\u2019s (Bangor Erris, Bundoran ,and Buncrana )all places to be avoided by the Bentley touring club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1772-large-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1772-large-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1772-large-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_1772-large-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly there <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3221\" src=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/screenshot-2024-06-12-at-17.29.43-large-722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/screenshot-2024-06-12-at-17.29.43-large-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/screenshot-2024-06-12-at-17.29.43-large-480x681.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 722px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3222\" src=\"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/screenshot-2024-06-12-at-17.29.21-large-976x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3222\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wordle 3\/6 ( draw) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \ud83d\udea6 Green<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A.S.S.S= 2 \ud83d\ude14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fingers crossed that the weather forecast is wrong. Malin head tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The penultimate day \ud83d\ude33. Weather held but trying not to look at tomorrow\u2019s forecast.. Great night in Ardara lovely B N B (the Atlantic lodge 10\/10) , early start as planned to get Buncrana ferry and did not want to do a \u201cdoc Lewis\u201d The run out of ardara right up to glenveagh national park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3206,"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-3223","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_1726-large.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","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=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}