{"id":2091,"date":"2001-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/2001\/10\/08\/j40-10-8-2001\/"},"modified":"2001-10-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-07T22:00:00","slug":"j40-10-8-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/2001\/10\/08\/j40-10-8-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"J40 &#8211; 10\/8\/2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right:3.6pt\" align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"><font size=\"3\"><b>Monday,  October 8<sup>th<\/sup><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\"> \/ <\/span>Day 40<o:p>  <\/o:p>  <\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right:3.6pt\" align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"><font size=\"3\"><b>Miles\/day  : 44.7 (72 km)<span style=\"mso-tab-count:  1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"mso-tab-count:1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  <\/span>Total : 1604.7 miles (2582 km)<o:p>  <\/o:p>  <\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right:3.6pt\" align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"><font size=\"3\"><b>Daily  running time : 7h 31mn<o:p>  <\/o:p>  <\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right:3.6pt\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"3\"><b>Daily  average speed : 5.9 miles\/h (9.58 km\/h)<span style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\">&nbsp;<o:p>  <\/o:p>  <\/span><\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right:3.6pt\" align=\"center\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"><font size=\"3\"><b>And  he is off again<\/b><\/font><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<o:p>  <\/o:p>  <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right:3.6pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"><font size=\"3\">\u201cYour  concern and your support during these difficult days have given me a real boost,  so it\u2019s with you that I\u2019ll share this record.\u201d <o:p>  <\/o:p>  <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right:3.6pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"><font size=\"3\">What  a strange feeling , this break in the middle of the race, break in the rhythm,  break in the climate, in the landscape, the relief and the people.<o:p>  <\/o:p>  <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right:3.6pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"><font size=\"3\">We  seem to need to adapt to these new conditions imposed on us by this humid plain  and this oppressive heat.<o:p>  <\/o:p>  <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-right:3.6pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\"><font size=\"3\">The  good health coming back, the morale shows up again. Today, we\u2019ve passed 2  tolls, 2 police checks and 1 military check which marks the frontier between  COCHABAMBA and SANTA CRUZ. Dangerous area very often used by drug dealers. The  army quite often use archaic methods to search for the famous white powder. <o:p>  <\/o:p>  <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span style=\" mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"3\">Serge  carries on \u201cmarking the miles out\u201d. Tonight we\u2019re 55,9 miles (90 km) away  from SANTA CRUZ.<\/font><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"galPhoto\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/11\/img_6996.jpg\" >&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/11\/img_6997.jpg\" ><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/11\/img_7261.jpg\" >&nbsp;  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/11\/img_7006.jpg\" > <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/11\/img_7143.jpg\" ><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/11\/img_7020.jpg\" >&nbsp;&nbsp;  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/11\/img_7269.jpg\" ><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/11\/img_7268.jpg\" >&nbsp;&nbsp;  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/11\/img_7070.jpg\" ><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/11\/img_7081.jpg\" ><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, October 8th \/ Day 40 Miles\/day : 44.7 (72 km)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Total : 1604.7 miles (2582 km) Daily running time : 7h 31mn Daily average speed : 5.9 miles\/h (9.58 km\/h)&nbsp; And he is off again&nbsp; \u201cYour concern and your support during these difficult days have given me a real boost, so it\u2019s with you [&hellip;]<\/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-2091","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\/2091","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=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergegirard.com\/5continents-south-america-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}