Sunday, 14 September 2008
End of day 3
If you'd asked me yesterday morning i'd have had serious doubts about being able to sort this photo, but we've made it. Just tomorrow morning to go. Time for dinner.
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Tiverton
Just had lunch and heading off on the penultimate leg of our journey. South Malton by tea time.
Sunshine over taunton
Setting off on day 3 in a bit, not sure how many more of there i'll be able to do as the 3g signal drops. Nice sunny day today, and we should be in south molton this evening.
Friday, 12 September 2008
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Day 1
Well day 1 is drawing to a close, safely arrived in Holt after riding 65 miles today and definitely feeling it!
The route wasnt too bad, Reading to Newbury was nice except for the rain, which eased off around 10.30. My brake incident was resolved - going over a pot hole to fast caused the wheel to slip, which was making it rub against the brake pad. All sorted now though.
Newbury to Marlborough was going pretty well until we hit the hills just outside Marlborough - 1 in 10 gradients for a couple of miles really wasnt fun. Going down the other side was fun though! Nice lunch in Marlborough - where the sun was finally out, and the added entertainment of watching the staff throw our curries over half the pub.
The theory was then that we had a nice easy 20 miles, mainly downhill, to Holt. Hmm. The mainly downhill part was a little bit wrong - round about Avebury they got nasty, and it turned out that actually, Marlborough to Holt was mainly uphill!
All good fun, legs aching a bit, but nothing too major (i hope), and fingers crossed a nice sleep will sort it out.
Tomorrow we head from Holt to Glastonbury for lunch, and then on to Taunton for the evening.
The route wasnt too bad, Reading to Newbury was nice except for the rain, which eased off around 10.30. My brake incident was resolved - going over a pot hole to fast caused the wheel to slip, which was making it rub against the brake pad. All sorted now though.
Newbury to Marlborough was going pretty well until we hit the hills just outside Marlborough - 1 in 10 gradients for a couple of miles really wasnt fun. Going down the other side was fun though! Nice lunch in Marlborough - where the sun was finally out, and the added entertainment of watching the staff throw our curries over half the pub.
The theory was then that we had a nice easy 20 miles, mainly downhill, to Holt. Hmm. The mainly downhill part was a little bit wrong - round about Avebury they got nasty, and it turned out that actually, Marlborough to Holt was mainly uphill!
All good fun, legs aching a bit, but nothing too major (i hope), and fingers crossed a nice sleep will sort it out.
Tomorrow we head from Holt to Glastonbury for lunch, and then on to Taunton for the evening.
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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