{"id":3681,"date":"2026-03-20T15:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:07:07","slug":"lanzaventura-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=3681","title":{"rendered":"Lanzaventura day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Famara to Yaiza<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air BnB was tricky to find but got there eventually. It was compact but well equipped however very pricy at 180\u00a3 for the night and came with a very particular odour. Might just have been damp after all the rain but I suspect a blocked sewer somewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Main Street Famara <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Famara is a surf resort. Really beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lovely meal out last night at the restaurant del Sol. On the beach front. Garlic prawns and wreck fish. Delicious. Then a tarte de queso, and a few scoops of vino also , well I am on holidays <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wreckfish <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Forecast for early part of today is poor and it\u2019s drizzling as I write this before heading to breakfast at the surfers bar \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great breakfast 10\/10 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn\u2019t eat the flower <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

West out of famara the road just stops replaced by first dirt road then sandy single track. Amazing <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gravel continued unabated all the way to club La Santa the spiritual home of the Mcconvey-Duffys. We did not like them book in for 5 back to back fitness sessions but headed to a cafe in La Santa for some two stroke ( Coke) and tarta Manzana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two stroke ( cyclists petrol) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The gravel then started to get very gnarly and volcanic , the wind blew on the nose. It was tough. I would liken it to trying to sail out of carlingford lough with a force 4 on the nose against a flooding spring tide. Paddy Harty will understand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apparently Lanzarote grows most of the world\u2019s tarmac in fields like this. Who knew? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We diverted slightly hoping for a swim , it was a 2.5 km diversion down hill so there was some discussion. As it turned out it was way too wild to even consider dipping toes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onwards into the wind , it was hard to get any momentum and the surface was either loose lava or like a washboard. Legs got tired\u2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thankfully bumped out onto the LZ73 ,up a steep climb however and then dropped down into Yaiza. Nice hotel. Cut today\u2019s route a bit short but can finish the loop tomorrow. Very heavy wind forecast so might stick around here for a night. Rain never came and sun shone so despite the wind a great day and 90% off road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yaiza <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have had a request to refresh the ASSS score meaning which I coined during the wild Atlantic way trip. Here you go<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDerivation of the ASSSS.
(Assessment of saddle sore state score), Which is polite for how is your behind holding up? <\/p>\n\n\n\n


I would suggest a scale similar to the Bristol stool scale for easy reference
0=normal skin appearance, feels like sitting on a sofa.
1=normal skin appearance , feels like sitting on a church pew.
2=mild redness of skin at contact points , feels like sitting on 180 grade sandpaper but bearable .
3= intense redness , feels like sitting on 60 grade sandpaper, need to stand occasionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4=Blister formation, feels like sitting on broken glass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5=Ulcer formation, get off the bike and walk!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today\u2019s score a worrying 2\/5 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udea6 mostly green. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Famara to Yaiza Air BnB was tricky to find but got there eventually. It was compact but well equipped however very pricy at 180\u00a3 for the night and came with a very particular odour. Might just have been damp after all the rain but I suspect a blocked sewer somewhere. Famara is a surf resort. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","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=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}