{"id":2868,"date":"2013-06-04T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2013-06-29T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T15:04:25","slug":"4-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"Adios & Muchos Gracias Latin America……Ola USA!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the alarm went off at 03h00 this morning it felt like I had been hit by a sledgehammer. I was on the road by 03h30 and rode the first 2 hours in the dark however, first light is always a special time and watching it happen over the Baja desert was truly a privilege as the peninsula is incredibly beautiful, albeit very very cold at this time of day!!<\/p>\n

\"SAM_0881\"<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

The ride proved to be unbelievably difficult and required me to draw on deep deep resources of strength and energy to keep going. By 07h30 when I stopped in El Rosario, 300km from Guerrero Negro to fuel up and collect a receipt I was feeling hypo glaecemic and frozen to the bone because the temps had dropped to about 5 degrees just before sunrise. A healthy breakfast of a litre of coke and a couple of snickers bar however set me up for the remainder of the ride. The road conditions haven\u2019t improved and the ride continues to be slow and although I was pushing hard on the straight stretches I did not manage an average speed of greater than 100km\/h at best, however, I managed the 1600km half an hour ahead of schedule and into Tijuana, 1668km from Cabo just after 11h20 (including the 1 hour time zone change)\u00a0so Iron Butt<\/a> challenge completed but it required 18 out of 24 hours of pretty hard riding!<\/p>\n

After this I needed to get across the Mexican\/US border at Tijuana which is the busiest road border in the world and required me to snake through about 3km of car queues to get to the front. I finally got into San Diego at about 13h00 exhausted but feeling great that I got this accolade behind me.<\/p>\n

\"Days<\/a><\/p>\n

745km from Guerrero Negro to Tijuana\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the alarm went off at 03h00 this morning it felt like I had been hit by a sledgehammer. I was on the road by 03h30 and rode the first 2 hours in the dark however, first light is always a special time and watching it happen over the Baja desert was truly a privilege […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theamericas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t