Distance
188.1
km
10,533.1
Avg. speed
25.4
km/h
25.8
Climb
3,598
metres
157,848
Time
7:24
hours
407:32
Heart
116
bpm
118
Calories
6,779
burned
352,479
Mountains
1
passed
138
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Today's course leads us through Santiago de Compostela, a famous pilgrimage destination and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and then to the most westerly point of Spain.
"It's not a question of 'Can the oceans take any more?' The oceans can't take any more. They couldn't take any more fifty years ago. The question is, when are we going to stop?"
Wow what a day, the best Stage so far, full of surprises. The Vuelta organisers called this the "leg-breaker" day, and it certainly was an apt description.
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Today’s Graph of the Day comes from the appropriately named Information is Beautiful website, and gives a different, and quite clear, interpretation of the global carbon budget – the amount of greenhouse emissions that we can burn to meet various climate change scenarios.
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