I guess I'm a lucky one as today was a short day, so I'm guessing not a lot can happen in a 56 mile day? Well yeah that's right actually! Had a lovely 'lie in' until 7.45 Saturday morning, and we set off just after 9.
The day would have been smooth except that half way into the route in the middle of a hill Andre changed up a gear too many and mangled his bike chain! After 45 minutes of Steve trying to pry out his chain from between the cassette and the wheel (NOT where a chain is supposed to be) we had success and were able to carry on - not before Steve had cleaned his now black hands from Andre's legendary filthy chain! Cycling 5 miles round the bull ring in Brun took over an hour and brought back memories of London last year when it took us 2 hours to do 12 miles! Turns out Birmingham people don't like cyclists pretty much the same as all other city dwellers, shouting at cyclists is practically a sport it seems.
When we finally turned up at the hotel, we traipsed through in our grubby, smelly cycling kit straight into a wedding reception on its way out for photos... awkward. It was tempting to help ourselves to some free wine but there were too many staff around who would notice!
Yesterday was a tough and looong day which I am glad to be rid of, we've had some beautiful scenery over the last week thanks to Steve's great routes!
Hoping the last 175 miles are not too hilly (mentally and physically scarred from Kirkstone pass) and kind on my bum! Really looking forward to the end now :)
Charlie
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