{"id":4673,"date":"2021-10-12T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T17:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:54:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T11:54:20","slug":"ride-12-10-2021-portugal-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotlund.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4673","title":{"rendered":"Ride 12\/10\/2021 Portugal day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ride 12\/10\/2021 Portugal Day 3<\/a><\/em> <\/p> \n

So it’s day 3 in Portugal and today’s ride was probably slightly harder than yesterdays. For one it’s warmer now, temps hitting highs of 29 degrees but although the ride was a few miles shorter than yesterday we had more climbs today. This was true for the big Cat 2 climb in the middle of the ride but also for the smaller ones before and after it. The Cat 2 climb was a very good climb because it wasn’t steep probably avg 5% but the first climb we had for the day was 16%, thankfully this was short. Again good food was served for the pit stops which was very handy for the smaller climbs which although short was getting on for 11%. This shows up in the total ascent for today which was 5800 feet compared to yesterdays 5400 feet but all in all another good day of cycling <\/span> For today I did 71 miles at an avg speed of 15 mph and thankfully I didn’t get lost like some other people did today by quite a big distance <\/span> <\/p> \n\n\t\t