firstly apologies to anyone who was concerned by the lack of post yesterday, it was a long hard day, and when we finished, we again had the joy of good company and exhaustion which kept me from posting.
yesterday started well with our friend clare joining us from hereford to bristol. a lovely ride down the wye valley was followed by crossing back into england...
a huge late lunch...
and a bit of grommit spotting:
it was tough to get psyched for the climb over mendips following that, and there may have been tears, stern words from emma and pushing bikes up very steep hills, but we got there! albeit under a beautiful sunset:
today was a great start, with dan and tom taking the lead all the way to exeter, meaning no navigation issues and less impact from the headwind.
they left us in good spirits to catch a train home, while we headed up onto dartmoor. i got a bit better at plodding up hills over the course of the afternoon, which was nice, but all too quickly dartmoor started dartmoor-ing on us so, soaked and tired, at Princeton...
we made the call to head straight for home rather than taking the more scenic plym valley trail. so with the majority of gradients (though by no means all) in our favour we wizzed into plymouth.
which leaves us with one, very hilly, but hopefully quite scenic, day to go. which feels odd!
yesterday:
101.5 miles with 6,534ft of ascent in 7h 47m 56s at an average speed of 13.0mph
today:
100.9 miles with 6,191ft of ascent in 7h 43m 40s at an average speed of 13.1mph
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