Overview/Highlights:
- The day started with Sharpy, unhappy at the late night finish of the previous day, hurtling into the distance muttering something about 'a quicker way to get north... starts with an M...' unfortunately he had neglected to take on a Garmin tracking device, and was soon riding around the shropshire countryside, my favourite text saying merely 'I'm lost'... he put a few extra miles in and caught us up at lunch.
- I've been thinking about other ways to raise some cash for charity for the trip, and have come up with the idea of a Complainathon - you get in teams and have to complain about as many things in the world for 24 hours, I'm teaming up with Sharpy and we're taking on all comers
- My battery ran out today at a key point where i was suffering, so i rapped some all time classics such as Straight Outta Compton, Regulate and The Next Episode, at one point I got so into it that I started making the hand gestures while going along on the bike, much to the delight of the locals, sadly it was not caught on camera, but feel I have some talent and an alternative career should I not make the pro tour next year
- My battery ran out today at a key point where i was suffering, so i rapped some all time classics such as Straight Outta Compton, Regulate and The Next Episode, at one point I got so into it that I started making the hand gestures while going along on the bike, much to the delight of the locals, sadly it was not caught on camera, but feel I have some talent and an alternative career should I not make the pro tour next year
- while Sharpy was sight-seeing, Kristina and I relied on one broken sat nav, we went wrong at EVERY.SINGLE.JUNCTION - which was nice
- also I did 110miles, Sharpy 115+, mainly wet but
mercifully, reasonably flat!
What we’ve learned:
- If you're faring very badly with endless painful troubles, and then it gets worse (e.g. the rain comes down as well) but then the situations returns to just 'faring very bad' you actually feel a whole lot better than you did at the start - it's all about perspective, i feel that this is a life lesson
- Don’t get lost, it adds miles
- Both our right knees are now in a worse state than the problematic left knees - icing is s***
New feature: the Pain Graphs:
- to follow tomorrow if have better wifi (seriously in 10 years we will laugh at how terribly connected we once were!)
Daily difficulty rating:
MS: 9/10 – riding alone in the middle of nowhere in the
relentless rain is shit
JT: 9/10 – can’t imagine it’s going to get much worse than
this, the mountain goat has been grounded
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| Now just need to find a mountain goat |
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| toll bridge - price 12p |
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| Arty shot from Sharpy |
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| Arriving at destination, weather indicative |
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