Today was a day of ups and downs in more ways than one. A highlight was cracking the 500 mile mark which was also our half way point. Mind you the cafe owner we met 20 miles before was adament that his establishment was the official mid point and so we signed the End to End book and paid for a cuppa for the next lejoger to come through.
We saw a lady this morning putting up a Post Office sign outside a remote village hall which is only open 2hrs a week. So we asked her to stamp our official form and when we told her what we were doing she gave us £5 towards our charity which we thought was really great.
Moving quickly on to the low point of the day...the first 26 miles took over 5 hrs of hard cycling mainly due to a 2mile 1 in 5 hill with a huge gale blowing straight into us! For the first time in the trip we thought we were not going to make our overnight stop in Tebay - but we eventually made it 10 hrs after setting off - seems like a lifetime! The upside has been the spectacular views and the opportunity to rescue a sheep that had gone astray - that we nearly ran into.
Lands End now 515 miles behind us.
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Keep on going! You have passed Ormskirk which is the centre of the UK!!
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ReplyDeleteWell done both of you for reaching halfway! By the way Chris, housegroup is at our house tonight!
ReplyDeleteWell done you two. Everyone is very impressed with your speed and endurance!! I wonder if I'll ever be able to keep up with you, or if you are going to be bored doing easy peasy 20 mile circular routes! Liz
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