{"id":3709,"date":"2026-03-21T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:06:05","slug":"lanzaventura-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=3709","title":{"rendered":"Lanzaventura day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yaiza to el cotillo ( Fuerteventura) via playa blanca <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed at hotel La Casona de Yaiza. Excellent and reasonably priced but not a Bentley in sight. Brilliant restaurant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had planned a loop west today but komoot reports road closed due to subsidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forecast is dry but VERY windy so we are not booking tonight\u2019s accommodation till we see if ferry operational. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The run out of Yaiza was on a beautiful smooth road. The LZ 704 I think. The parallel LZ02 is strictly no bikes. Last time I was here I managed somehow to end up on it and was def not flavour of the month with drivers. today we got it right but the block headwind was a trial . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onto ferry at Playa Blanca. It looks wild rough ..and I forgot my sea legs. \ud83e\uddb5 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rough crossing but was over before I revisited my break fast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Landed at Corralejo and headed west into the wind , back on gravel within a km which lasted all day <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After about an hour it got so windy we had to stop for a bit , wrestling with my bike under full sail was no joke. I would have needed a few reefs in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We struggled on , beauty all around but the wind kept our heads down. We were shot blasted with sand all day picking sand out of all the crevasses now \ud83e\udd2a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was never so glad to see destination ,El cotillo. Inhaled a pizza and coke in 2 minutes. Hopefully that will be the end of storm therese<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope the gravel grinder went well for everyone. Congrats to TP and DAR on finishing their race in Africa. Top class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nearly ( but not quite ) time for a day off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ASS =1. Not enough cycling today to do any damage <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udea6a few red moments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yaiza to el cotillo ( Fuerteventura) via playa blanca Stayed at hotel La Casona de Yaiza. Excellent and reasonably priced but not a Bentley in sight. Brilliant restaurant. Had planned a loop west today but komoot reports road closed due to subsidence. Forecast is dry but VERY windy so we are not booking tonight\u2019s accommodation […]<\/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-3709","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\/3709","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=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}