We begin this evening's blog with an apology, apparently my parents didn't love me enough to send me to a school where they teach proper spelling and grammar....whateva...
Radio 4 informed us this morning that there was a severe weather warning in Northwest Scotland.... Great.... Mike was pretty upset about this, but Mr Positive (Dave) was still in upbeat mood and noted that we were lucky the rain was going vertically down..... WHAT???? Apparently it would be worse if it was going sideways.....IDIOT
In fact the weather was terrible. The boys did really well to keep motivated and yet again we got off to a flyer covering the first 20 miles in record time. Unfortunately, things were too good to be true... SNAP... The chain broke, again. Tim (Saviour) came to the rescue, swiftly fixing the chain and we were good to go.
It only got worse, I can truely say I have never cycled it such bitter conditions. We climbed through Glencoe and had a brutal 15 miles on the moors with rain and wind battering us to pieces. If this wasn't bad enough we also had to contend with big trucks and coaches hammering past us creating huge vortices of wind and spray that sent us all over the road as they went by.
(we've tried hard with our photos tonight to capture the misery but none of them really do it justice)
We toughed it out and got to the otherside, physically and mentally, but with a lot of help from the saviour and the safe haven of the van and all her heaters.
We came down a very steep descent with steaming brakes (literally) and made it down to the stunning Loch Lomond and to our latest rest point - The Old Toll House in Tarbet where we had a warm welcome from Jim. On other matters, Mark and Mike didn't make sweet lovin' last night (apparently it's the wrong phase of the moon). Dave is really looking forward to seeing a certain part of his wife's anatomy. And me and Tim get to room together again......To the pub
(PS. This has been heavily edited, if I was a six-year-old there would have been a lot of red pen)
Todays distance: 77 miles
Total distance: 251 miles
Todays Ascent: 1251 metres
Total Ascent: 4281 metres.
4 comments:
Did Mike's monster return today?
Did Mark's perineal paraesthesia improve after barry white?
Thank god for the germans eh? Very impressive chaps. Keep up the good work. Enjoy the battered inner tube breakfast.
Vip and Alixe
xxxx (those are from alixe)
Keeping in touch via this blog - the tinternet is great innit!
My father in law is a great cyclist and will be on the loch lomond road by the Helensburgh turning hopefully tomorrow to wave you on. Give him a wave or stop for a quick chat - he's 81!
Go for it guys
Pete & Sarah
The Tandem Shop
Top tip from the guys at Co-Motion. Suggest you try putting cranks out of phase for two of the four riders.
They wish you well!
Pete
The Tandem Shop
Hey Guys, We bumped into you the night before you left! Amazed that you are doing so well... Chins up and don't be miserable! It gets better after about day four and the pain does go away, (mind you sure you don't want to hear that from me because I'm in my cosy home back in London). Seriously amazed by what you guys are doing - it's hard enough work on a bike bicycle made for one! Keep pedalling! If you go through Bilsborrow near Lancaster then go to the awardwinning chippy there - promise it will be the best fish n' chips of the ride and there no battered dog to be had there..
Esther
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