{"id":989,"date":"2016-09-27T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=989"},"modified":"2016-09-27T18:54:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:54:17","slug":"heartbreak-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreak Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our day of rest, we got up in good time to be first off, so we had the best chance of the locks being set in our favour. \u00a0We were just about to cast off when a boat went past&#8230;blast! \u00a0We held back and finished our morning cuppa, and waited for 15 mins. \u00a0Most of the locks today are duplicated, still narrow locks but there are two of them, side by side. \u00a0We ended up following two boats which meant that they all needed emptying and then filling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-986\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dupeLocks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-986\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dupeLocks-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Duplicate locks, on this occasion only one side is in use\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dupeLocks-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dupeLocks-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/dupeLocks.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duplicate locks, on this occasion only one side is in use<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In all we did 26 locks all going up, it&#8217;s not called Heartbreak Hill for nothing!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-987\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/underBridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-987\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/underBridge-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Toby approaching the lock\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/underBridge-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/underBridge.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toby approaching the lock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We managed to get to Harecastle tunnel before the 3pm cut off, where you&#8217;re guaranteed passage. Just as we arrived, the boats from the other direction were just exiting, we couldn&#8217;t have timed it any better. \u00a0It took 45 minutes to travel through the tunnel and Toby did a great job steering. \u00a0We made such good progress today, we decided to knock off early and moor up at 4pm<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-985\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/harecastle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-985\" src=\"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/harecastle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The start of Harecastle tunnel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/harecastle-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/harecastle-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/harecastle.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The start of Harecastle tunnel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our day of rest, we got up in good time to be first off, so we had the best chance of the locks being set in our favour. \u00a0We were just about to cast off when a boat went past&#8230;blast! \u00a0We held back and finished our morning cuppa, and waited for 15 mins. \u00a0Most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heartbreak Hill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leeds-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-fX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}