I am sad to now be back in the UK but however it does mean that I now have enough wifi to write a blog post, as all of last week I have been struggling with the almost non existent wifi in La Manga. I was so excited to have our family holiday in La Manga this year because it is perfect for my whole family, I can go off and do sports all day long and also have some chill time to sunbath. Normally my holidays are just sunbathing, which I do find a little dull as I am a very active person and like to be doing something most of the time. On the first full day in La Manga, I was quick to persuade my sister and her boyfriend to come on a mountain bike ride with me and to my delight they said yes. This also gave be the perfect opportunity to test out my new Garmin 735xt, which I have had my eye on for ages and I finally gave in and bought it. We went to the bike hire shop and quickly found ourselves some bikes and the man took us through our route. We weren't anticipating the route to be quite so complicated so me and my sister gave Kurt the job of directing us. After starting off our cycle on the roads around La Manga Club we quickly found ourselves on the dirt track in the National Park and although we didn't expect it to be quite so rocky in some places, we all quickly got used to it and soon enough the path turned into a wide dirt track. Our planned route was to take us to the beach and back which would be 20km, 10km there and 10km back, but as you can guess the way back was significantly harder because we had to ride back up from the beach. After 3 water breaks and 10km of cycling we made it to the beach and some of the views were amazing. We cycled down the little wooded path to the beach and when we got to the beach we had a water break, and had a few minutes to top up our tan up and take in the lovely surroundings. I was very keen to go and jump in the sea to cool off, but I knew that the way back would then be very uncomfortable because there would inevitably end up being sand in my trainers, which is one of my worst nightmares. I was pretty happy to have reached the beach and a quick protein bar gave me the energy I needed for my journey back. The journey back was really not that bad and the seriously steep hill went quite quickly. We then followed the same route back through the national park and the sections which before felt really rocky and impossible to cycle over, felt considerably easier. I think is was the fact that we had got used to the rocky track by then. I had a very busy week of sports whilst I was away and I will be posting some running and swimming blog posts soon. Tonight I have my first aquathlon, which I am a bit nervous for, because it will also be my first open water swim. I will write a blog post on it and I am doing a parkrun this week so there will also be a blog post on that, so the blog will be pretty busy this week and next week as I have lots going on, so make sure you keep up to date with it. Love G x
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Emily Harding
7/13/2016 01:07:36 am
I LOVE this post! Xx
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