{"id":2243,"date":"2024-04-22T21:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndhop.org\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2024-04-22T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:39:05","slug":"a-head-start-on-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/?p=2243","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 &#8211; A head start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I arrived on Thurso and then headed out towards John O Groats.. I was going to take in Dunnet Head (most northern point on mainland) but time wasn&#8217;t on my side and with wind increasing and temperature dropping I needed to get to JOG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240422_1435318227367328407357325-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2241\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was due to start tomorrow but as my flight landed early and my train worked I figured with dry weather let&#8217;s get moving!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JOG was cold&#8230; like two degrees windchill.. so a shorter than planned zoom (apologies to everyone who couldn&#8217;t make it on\/had trouble) and time to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240422_1719317854294596876335295-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2242\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d spent the previous weeks trying to pin-down a route and on-approach to JOG I asked Jesus which way to go.. the easier route would be back through thurso but that would be another 30 miles against the wind..&nbsp; Holy Spirit challenged me .. &#8220;So, who sent the wind? And you want to ride against it ? &#8221; I walked upto the map board by the finger post at JOG and there was a map and a road that isn&#8217;t mentioned on any other map I&#8217;d looked at. Thank you Jesus. So I am now 15km South..&nbsp; sleeping in my tent on the edge of a rough carpark&#8230; ready for some sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll add some more tomorrow.. zzzz Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived on Thurso and then headed out towards John O Groats.. I was going to take in Dunnet Head (most northern point on mainland) but time wasn&#8217;t on my side and with wind increasing and temperature dropping I needed to get to JOG. I was due to start tomorrow but as my flight landed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13,14,15],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pedalandpray","tag-pedalandpray","tag-prayer","tag-ride"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}