It has been 6 weeks since Lands End. And for at least 4 of those I have been desperate to get out on my bike. But between weekends busier than the M25 at rush hour and the need to remind my son who his Daddy is, I have been suffering from bike-drought! I was determined to get …

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Almost from the moment we got off our bikes on Tuesday at Lands End I have been asked “What next?” For now I am not concerning myself with the next challenge (and I know myself well enough to know that there will be one – I just don’t know what it is yet!) Instead I …

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After our atrocious mileage on day 10 it would be necessary for Carl to really put in a massive effort if we were to stand any chance at all of finishing today. At his lowest point the previous day Carl had basically told Vince and I to leave him, so that he could take two …

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After our epic finish yesterday we woke in our hotel at 7.00am. We had allowed ourselves the luxury of a small lie-in, bearing in mind that we didn’t have breakfast available at our accommodation. On and a half hours of faffing later we were on the road. And the road was wet. And pretty soon …

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Apologies folks for the brief post from my phone. Yesterday was an epic day, in many senses of the word! We cycles through Shropshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire and Avon. We crossed the Severn Bridge and The Avonmouth Bridge and the promptly got lost trying to find our way around Bristol! We finished our day in the …

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Apologies to those of you that are hanging on my every word (probably only my Mum!) that I have not been around for the last couple of days. I do have a couple of very good excuses – if anyone wants to hear them…? Day 6 – Penrith to Preston: We stayed at my house …

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The boys have been busy playing rock / paper / scissors for who shares a room with me, and after several nights with Dean it was Vince’s turn to have to try to sleep through the earthquake tht is my snoring! Vince does most things well, and sharing a room with me was no exception! …

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Never for a minute did I think that today would be a good day. Of all the days that I had planned I had always thought that this one would be the least enjoyable. I was proved right in so many ways today, yet there were positives. Today proved to be a day of contrasts. …

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Last night we stayed in Drumnadrochit, home of the Loch Ness Monster (if monsters have a ‘home’ as such). We were in a B&B run by the spitting image of the landlady from the Kingpin movie! At our B&B the hot water was provided by one of those ‘on demand’ dispensers, and being a bank …

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 When we finally finished the morning faff and emerged from the hotel the ‘clag’ had set in, and it had started to rain! So we had managed one day before the rain! Brilliant! Fortunately though the rain didn’t linger – it hung around just about long enough to soak us before clearing off. And we …

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