{"id":182,"date":"2017-09-11T21:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2018-05-30T23:40:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T22:40:17","slug":"day-3-la-fleche-to-loche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/day-3-la-fleche-to-loche\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 La Fleche to Loche"},"content":{"rendered":"

78.5 miles, ascent 1000 metres, average speed 12.8 mph. Interestingly \u00a0my recorded mileage was slightly\u00a0higher than yesterday’s which was billed as the longest!<\/p>\n

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Rob doing the morning briefing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rob gave the morning briefing pointing out any hazards along the route and giving the locations of brew stops and lunch.<\/p>\n

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The river Sarthe at La Fleche<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I lost contact with my riding buddies, Pauline and Mick, while I stopped to take the photo above. As I had the only working sat Nav of the three of us it caused P&M some navigational problems. Fortunatley they were swept up by our support guy Chris and we all met up at the brew stop in Noyant some 18 miles into the ride. The weather today has been mostly sunny but \u00a0with a strong crosswind which, very occasionally, turned to be at our backs. At 41 miles we stopped for a very nice picnic lunch on the banks of La Loire at Langeais. Rob, Isabel and Chris from Peak Tours are treating us really well.<\/p>\n

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Rob checking for butter!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The bridge at Langeais<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The route after lunch was undulating until we reached the brew stop at\u00a0Thilouze after 46 miles. Suitably fortified we had a long flat section with a following wind which allowed us to make good progress to Loche where we arrived about 4:30. Another long day but perhaps a little easier than yesterday – or, more accurately, less difficult! We have been passing through apple growing country with lots of commercial orchards beside the road. A little scrumping may have been going on – very tasty!<\/p>\n

Loche is a picturesque medieval town and we are staying in the Hotel de France which is in the town centre.<\/p>\n

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Hotel de France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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78.5 miles, ascent 1000 metres, average speed 12.8 mph. Interestingly \u00a0my recorded mileage was slightly\u00a0higher than yesterday’s which was billed as the longest! Rob gave the morning briefing pointing out any hazards along the route and giving the locations of brew stops and lunch. I lost contact with my riding buddies, Pauline and Mick, while … Continue reading “Day 3 La Fleche to Loche”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-channel-to-the-med"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}