{"id":225,"date":"2017-09-16T17:26:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T16:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:26:39","slug":"day-8-st-flour-to-mende","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/day-8-st-flour-to-mende\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8 St Flour to Mende"},"content":{"rendered":"

51.32 miles, ascent 1477 metres, average speed 10.4 mph, 4 hrs 55 mins.<\/p>\n

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Hotel Planchettes – an old monastery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A shorter day today but still with a fair amount of climbing. We had the now customary early morning climb followed by a fast descent to a lake and spectacular iron viaduct.<\/p>\n

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The Garabit Viaduct over the Truyere river. Ruynes en Margaride.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was a long hard flog up to the brew stop at Faverolles after 12 miles. I found the climbing a little difficult this morning probably due to a combination of long climbs yesterday and having picked up a cold. The cold mornings mean dressing up well but then becoming hot on the first climb then cold on the long descents. Some nice blue sky with huge white clouds and more great scenery. \"\"Lunch was taken in Aumont-Aubrac at 30 miles. \u00a0 Coffee came up quickly at 12 miles where Isabel produced a fine treat of dark chocolate- she really treats us well with snacks. There was a long climb after coffee followed by an even longer decent into tho lovely town of Mende\u00a0which I am now going to explore a little and perhaps find a pharmacy! Thanks for your comments, they are very encouraging.<\/p>\n

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Top of the descent into Mende.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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51.32 miles, ascent 1477 metres, average speed 10.4 mph, 4 hrs 55 mins. A shorter day today but still with a fair amount of climbing. We had the now customary early morning climb followed by a fast descent to a lake and spectacular iron viaduct. There was a long hard flog up to the brew … Continue reading “Day 8 St Flour to Mende”<\/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-225","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\/225","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=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}