Blogster's back! Just like Take That....
The rest day was well deserved and much needed. The hospitality in Cheshire was amazing and both the Stuarts and the Lamberts came up trumps. It was lovely for all of the menfolk to see the WAGs, Blogster assumes essential MOT checks were made by all... no reports of infertility so far.
Unfortunately, Delilah was not so well behaved and overcome by jealousy she turned to crack.... As we've seen with Amy Winehouse, this leads to a rapid descent into the armpit of humanity.... determined not to le
t this happen we sent her for rehab.... but she wouldn't go go go....so Mark went instead. Essentially, we found a big crack in Delilah's rear wheel at 6pm last night and Mark had to drive down to Ironbridge to get a new one. Peter and Sarah at the Tandem shop in Ironbridge were brilliant and had a new wheel waiting (At 7:30pm on a Saturday!!!!! We all owe you an eternal debt of gratitude). Matt and Mark were then up until 1am this morning, fitting and servicing delilah. This was hardly ideal preparation for what has turned out to be our longest day...Bike ride;
After the aforementioned late night, we were up and away early doors in front of a crowd of well-wishers. We made a silky smooth start and felt quite impressed with our skills.... 100 yds down the road we didn't look so hip-hop when we almost crashed into a curb and had to dismount rapidly and push her round the corner.
We overcame this setback, and with support vehicle (now under the charge of Dr Lambert (Snr)), we pressed on and got up a good head of steam. We covered 92 miles over the day at an average speed of 19.5mph.
The first 30 miles we had a cavalcade of well-wishers, the WAGs, The Stuarts, The Lamberts (in the support van) added to this were visits from one of the tandem shop mechanics, Chris and Hannah (Mark's sister) and Jono, Sam and Jamie (Jamie is Mike's new nephew who cried as soon as he saw Mike.... Jamie is already excellent judge of character).Tomorrow we press on to Bristol and our reunion with Saviour.
PS. As much as Mrs Stuart didn't want a mention Blogster has decided to defy this direct instruction to say that her cake was amazing... Thank you
PPS. Thanks to the Lamberts for excellent support driving, map reading and food.
PPS. Mike says his courgette fritters were better than Emily's... Blogster finds this hard to believe.
Today Distance: 92 Miles
Total Distance: 644 Miles
Today Ascent: 977 metres
Total Ascent: 9162 metres
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