Greetings from Abington
We thought it a cunning plan to send a
red cross parcel to each of our destination hotels containing vital supplies
for the following days ride, you know the sort of thing, nutrition bars,
protein drinks, carbohydrate gels etc. Much of this gear, Graham weighed out
into small plastic bags before sending them off to the hotels. I'm sure you can
see where this is going....
Well we didn't actually have the drug
squad waiting for us at the Abington hotel, but we did have a receptionist who
took a lot of convincing of the innocence of our pharmaceuticals.
We got it a little wrong today, we were
rather cocky after surviving our 'longest' day yesterday. So we didn't set out
from Lancaster
until 7. Wonderful day though, bright sunshine as we headed off to Kendle and
the Lake District. Second slight error of
judgement was the 15 mile climb up to Shap, one on the Lake
districts finest hills and at 6 mph this took us rather longer than we thought.
Coming down the other side at 40 was rather fun though.
The third error was a long lunch in Carlisle and
then onto Gretna for the required photos next to
the Welcome to Scotland
sign. By the time we had finished tea in Lockerbie we realised it was getting
on for 6 and we still had 30 miles to go.
Great, empty road to Abington but really
hard work and we got here at 8 ready for beer, bed and very little else.
Everything is still more or less holding together apart from a bike
that keeps slipping into neutral when not changing gear and a bloody painful Achilles
tendon. Bums are of course feeling the effects of 500 + miles!
Glasgow city centre and then on into the highlands tomorrow.
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