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Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 21/12/2014: the world capital of Turrón

Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 21/12/2014: the world capital of Turrón
From: Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:54:20 -0600
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> Today I went on a challenging bike ride, which became even more so because
> I turned the wrong way at a certain point, adding 7 km and significant
> climbing to the ride. In the end it was 87 km with 1265 metres of climbing.
> When I took this picture of the town of Jijona (whose claim to fame is
> indeed that this is where turrón is produced), I had ridden around 60 km
> and my legs were hurting, a lot—I had done most of the climbing by then. So
> I stopped with great pleasure to take this picture—it was all downhill from
> here, almost:
>
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3777395446&k=RNKVRR8&lb=1&s=O
>
>
> Looking at the "downhill" portion of that definitely indicates that the
"uphill" portion was brutal...

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Paul Braun WD9GCO
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