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It started fairly flat, it was cool and the only thing against us was the wind (all day) so a good start and we had plenty of opportunity to fill our water bottles en route <\/p>\n\n\n\n All our climbs were reserved for the last 20km of the ride but none were very steep so no real problem<\/p>\n\n\n\n We arrived around 16:00 at the dam and set up camp. Tonight is spaghetti for supper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 123.11km. 1,271m ascent. 6h16 ride time After an excellent night\u2019s sleep in the superb church hostel in Sebree we were ready for a big ride It started fairly flat, it was cool and the only thing against us was the wind (all day) so a good start and we had plenty of opportunity to fill…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[14,65,54,63,20],"class_list":["post-16045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trans-american-bike-trail","tag-bike","tag-camping","tag-holiday","tag-lake","tag-tat","category-22","description-off"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_0103.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16031,"url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/06\/27\/transamerica-day-57-marion-to-sebree\/","url_meta":{"origin":16045,"position":0},"title":"Marion to Sebree. 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