Thursday, 29 July 2010
Day 5 Northwich to Kendal
90 more miles in 7 hours. The best day of the tour so far. Weather wet and windy for first few hours - through Warrington and Wigan. Then into God's County (Lancashire for those who don't know me that well) - I even got off the bike and took photo of County sign! Then into Preston and a brief meet-up with my brother David - amazing to see him looking so well. Then a push on through Lancaster and late in the day as weather improved into Kendal - what an amazing place Cumbria and the lakes is. Dinner with mum to end a perfect day - no comedy satnav, cycling through fields or over fresh tar moments! Tomorrow just 73 miles into Scotland and over Shap Fell, piece of cake! Halfway there now, let's finish this off together now folks - still need all your support and encouragement. Cheers John.
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I think this is day 5 not day 4 - don't make it longer than it needs to be!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love that you sound so upbeat and positive and am so glad that yesterday was less eventful than the rest of the days.
Hope your knee and elbow are both OK after your comedy fall yesterday - buy some new cleats (or whatever it is you need ) today and get your gears looked at - crunching does not sound good.
Right, that's the end of the bossy wife stuff, now onto a bit of mush....
Ride safe, miss you loads, love you heaps xxxxxxx
all down hill from now on (well not quite in SCotland) but you know what I mean. Sounds like a really good day yesterday so hang on to that feeling and take it the rest of the way. What will we do when this is over!
ReplyDeletelove Nancy & Billxxx
Still following and willing you on. Just thinking about the hills you now have to face is making me feel tired.
ReplyDeleteKathy
Excellent work John although feel a bit let down that there's no disasters today for us to ooh and aaah over !
ReplyDeleteSo into Scotalnd today! the best part of the ride by far,apart from the condition of the road surfaces!
Keep at it mate, you've only got five days to go until you reach fully fledged Legend status !
keep the legs moving you are doing just great mum xxxxx
ReplyDeleteSorry to have missed you yesterday but glad you had an incident-free ride. Hope you get chance to take in the amazing scenery you'll be cycling through.
ReplyDeleteWell done yet again and good luck for the remainder!
Brilliant to see you John, we are really proud of you!!! Hope the mars bar helped you on your way!! Love Pam, David and kids xxxxx
ReplyDeleteJohn, what a wonderful and selfless thing you are doing!!! a very good friend of mine has a 15 year old son with cancer and kidney failure. You are a true hero. good Luck. Katie Morgan xx
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