{"id":2068,"date":"2001-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/2001\/08\/30\/j1-8-30-2001\/"},"modified":"2001-08-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-08-29T22:00:00","slug":"j1-8-30-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/2001\/08\/30\/j1-8-30-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"J1 – 8\/30\/2001"},"content":{"rendered":"

PROLOGUE  <\/o:p> <\/span><\/h1>\n

Two to four hours\u2019sleep, it\u2019s the excitement of the last preparations. Everyone feels tense. Loading and sorting out of the vehicles ; <\/span><\/p>\n

4.30: Breakfast time <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

5.30: Everything is ready. The team leave the hotel for the Miraflores lighthouse. In the meantime Serge has just woken up from a good night\u2019s sleep. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

6a.m: Day is dawning over Lima. Wet weather with fog, typical of this city.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>THURSDAY, AUGUST 30th<\/sup> D-DAY <\/o:p> <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 65km   <\/span>in 6 hours and four minutes. <\/o:p> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 7.12: Departure from Marina, Mirafores lighthouse, in a respectful silence. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

Serge runs along the ocean for 1,6 Km before reaching the overpolluted city of Lima. Today being a bank holiday the traffic isn\u2019t as bad , which gives us a bit of rest. Serge runs with his tee-shirt over his nose to avoid being asphyxiated by exhaust fumes. No problem for the first 15Km but when we get to the rough suburbs of Lima, Serge finds himself in the middle of a street fight between two gangs. Traumatized, he finds shelter behind the car. Stones fly from everywhere. No word could describe the atmosphere.. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

Lima is behind us now, we start climbing up towards Chosica, the road slopes gently. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

The stage ends in a small village called Cupiche at an altitude of 1250m. We are surrounded by mountains and it\u2019s very sunny now. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

The atmosphere is rather tense , we must set up the camp for ten people and stick to Serge\u2019s strict timing at the same time.It\u2019s pandemonium but on the first day it\u2019s quite understandable. <\/o:p> <\/span><\/p>\n

After yesterday\u2019s sleepless night tiredness can be seen on our faces, we\u2019re all in bed by 9.<\/span><\/p>\n

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PROLOGUE  Two to four hours\u2019sleep, it\u2019s the excitement of the last preparations. Everyone feels tense. Loading and sorting out of the vehicles ; 4.30: Breakfast time 5.30: Everything is ready. The team leave the hotel for the Miraflores lighthouse. In the meantime Serge has just woken up from a good night\u2019s sleep. 6a.m: Day is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}