heroic effort

Hi guys sorry its been a while, i have had no battery for ages! Here is some nice horny bulls/cows we had a chat with just outside of Glasgow!

Were back on track! Last night was a struggle, as some of you may know, we left Glasgow late as we were messing around waiting for a screwfix to open to fix
Jonny's panniers then andy kept on getting punctures one after another.
At one point andy picked up 2 punctures right on the top of a hill in the middle of no where but next to a truck stop, where some hells Angels bikers were meeting! And while me and andy were fixing the puncture I swear jonny had pulled! Some big biker was adamant that we all went in and had a pint and he swore we would get them bought! We swiftly moved on and said no!



All this meant we were moving slow, and as it turned midnight we decided it was too dark to carry on! So we pitched up at the next site we saw! Luckily we just caught the bar man cashing up at a nice looking site about 30miles short of gretna, if it wasnt for the barman there would have been no one to let us on the site, not that it would have mattered too much, because we had decided it was a toss up between a nicely pruned roundabout or a cricket ground! Both looked good sleeperies!






So this morning we were up at 5.30 ready to put in a130miler. We started well and pace was probably the best yet, until we realised we had been going for 20miles in a southwesterly direction instead of south! So we covered six affective miles instead of the 20 we had just cycled! For me this was very depressing! Especially when I knew we were supposed to be meeting my dad at 2 in Kendal!






Anyway to cut it short, we powered on even with andy getting another puncture! Another reason we was desperate to get to Kendal (so andy could have his bike looked at)! anyway we soon got to gretna and passed the border, finally some english soil!




We met my dad in Kendal for a
Quick pub lunch, some amazing cherry flapjacks he had brought from our local farm shop in brighouse and most importantly because he has been following the blog closely he had seen how much we have been struggling to find vanilla slices, so he brought along the finest VANILLA SLICES yet! Ha, and the only ones! Dad also delivered my wrist splints, this should make for some interesting cycling!

Most eventful things that happened today were:
1. Going the wrong way, first time yet!
2. Crossing the border from Scotland to England
3. Meeting my dad and having a few pints and a pub lunch knowing we still had 50 miles to go! And after we had already done 80miles!
4. Jonny falling asleep whilst cycling downhill!
5. Our epic pace for our fastest 50miles yet from kendal to Preston! We did it in just under 4 hrs.



- Posted from my iPhone