{"id":694,"date":"2012-01-25T07:36:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T06:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=694"},"modified":"2012-03-11T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T14:24:20","slug":"week-3-cycling-in-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=694","title":{"rendered":"Week 03: cycling in the mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Lars from Denmark was still here all week, and I took Thursday and Friday off so that we could do some serious cycling together. More specifically, we were going to venture into the mountains surrounding Alicante. There are a couple of nearby villages, Aig\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bces and Busot, which I had never been able to reach&#8211;I would &#8220;bonk&#8221; during the long climbs needed to get there. With Lars, I finally made it (and have since made it on my own). It turns out that I had a tendency to start too quickly at the beginning of the ascents. Once I learned to pace myself, I was able to conquer the long climbs of several km. Most of this week&#8217;s pictures are from our cycling, taken with the Fuji X100 I carry in my handlebar bag.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3_1<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is Lars on a mountain road near Aig\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bces. He is riding my reserve bike which I had purchased during the autumn:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/3_1.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1196\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3_2<\/strong><br \/>\nA much needed breather:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/3_2.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1164\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3_3<\/strong><br \/>\nThe first time I made it to Aig\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bces:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/3_3.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1153\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3_4<\/strong><br \/>\nThe landscape in which we cycled:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/3_4.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1162\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3_5<\/strong><br \/>\nA rather run-down farm along N-332, the old Valencia road:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/3_5.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1191\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3_6<\/strong><br \/>\nA spectator admiring us:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/3_6.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1189\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To finish off, a few pictures from other events of the week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3_7<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring the early part of the week we had a couple of rare rainy days. But it never rains for an entire day here, and after the rain you get this, as seen from my office window:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/3_7.jpg\" alt=\"IGP4034\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3_8<\/strong><br \/>\nCustomer parking outside a local <em>caja<\/em> (savings &#038; loan):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/3_8.jpg\" alt=\"DSF1147\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3_9<\/strong><br \/>\nThe department store El Corte Ingl\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9s has an exhibition space, <em>Ambito Cultural<\/em>, normally used for exhibitions by local artists. It is an excellent location with lots of traffic. So we were thrilled when our photo club at the office, Lightbox, was given a two-week window to stage a photo exhibition there. It opened on Friday and features images taken by members during a trip to Scotland last April (I did not go on that trip and so do not have any pictures in the exhibition):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/3_9.jpg\" alt=\"L1007059\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3_10<\/strong><br \/>\nYours truly talking with Mark Kennedy, a Scottish colleague from the office who was the driving force behind the Scotland trip:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2012\/3_10.jpg\" alt=\"19-36-41-05\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/player\/142933131\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/player\/142933131', 'route']);\" >route<\/a> along which most of the cycling pictures were taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Lars from Denmark was still here all week, and I took Thursday and Friday off so that we could do some serious cycling together. More specifically, we were going to venture into the mountains surrounding Alicante. There are a couple of nearby villages, Aig\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bces and Busot, which I had never been able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":671,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/694\/revisions\/717"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}