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Monday Dec 15, 2014 #
8 AM
Run 1:01:00 [3] 11.0 km (5:33 / km) +250m 4:59 / km
Santiago was the last leg of the journey, and this was the last run. I was staying near the main metropolitan park (not by coincidence), which contains a high hill with several communications towers and a big statue of the Virgin Mary. My original thoughts were to go around the base, given the hard day yesterday, but that wasn't really an option so this one was another long climb (though not as steep as yesterday's). Not terribly sparkling - hadn't slept that well (whether subconsciously absorbing the goings-on at home or not, I'm not sure) - but happy with the way I came up in the muscular sense with no signs of the sore quads which I thought might have been the result of yesterday. Nice cool morning; even yesterday's mid-20s is the warmest I've experienced since Mendoza, which makes me think readjusting once home could be interesting.
Plenty of cyclists taking on the hill, as you'd expect. Santiago's cyclists are not exactly lacking in hill-climbing opportunities - while the bulk of the city is flat apart from isolated hills (old volcanic plugs?), big mountains rise just out of town and I don't think you'd have to go too far away to find road climbs of 2000m vertical or more (Santiago is at 600m and the ski resorts nearby are mostly in the mid- to upper 2000s, with the pass to Mendoza a bit over 3000).
Wandering around the central city (lots of Christmas shopping crowds) in the late afternoon/evening yesterday was pleasant enough without suggesting that I'd made a mistake in making Valparaiso my higher priority of the weekend.
It took until my last night in South America before the first time that I was on the end of an attempt at petty scamming, in the form of a restaurant that calculated a 10% service charge as an amount which actually worked out to 28%. They probably should have tried to pull that one on someone a bit less numerate.
And here the trip ends; I'm about to get on the plane home. If things go to plan my next run will be Eastern Summer Series at Tunstall Junction.
Plenty of cyclists taking on the hill, as you'd expect. Santiago's cyclists are not exactly lacking in hill-climbing opportunities - while the bulk of the city is flat apart from isolated hills (old volcanic plugs?), big mountains rise just out of town and I don't think you'd have to go too far away to find road climbs of 2000m vertical or more (Santiago is at 600m and the ski resorts nearby are mostly in the mid- to upper 2000s, with the pass to Mendoza a bit over 3000).
Wandering around the central city (lots of Christmas shopping crowds) in the late afternoon/evening yesterday was pleasant enough without suggesting that I'd made a mistake in making Valparaiso my higher priority of the weekend.
It took until my last night in South America before the first time that I was on the end of an attempt at petty scamming, in the form of a restaurant that calculated a 10% service charge as an amount which actually worked out to 28%. They probably should have tried to pull that one on someone a bit less numerate.
And here the trip ends; I'm about to get on the plane home. If things go to plan my next run will be Eastern Summer Series at Tunstall Junction.