Faffed about for a bit then drove to where we finished yesterday. Took a few snaps next to Loch Lomond with our British Lung Foundation shirts on
and then we were off...almost. Nick broke his inner tube just as we were about to leave so had to put another one in!
Fannied about for another 30 mins and finally got on the road by midday, waved off by the support team!
About 15 minutes in the saddle we passed another group of cyclists also doing the Land's End JOG cycle, apparently not as quickly as us. Nick then decided he hadn't slowed us up enough and his speedo fell off whilst whizzing down a hill. Luckily he found it in the road before anyone had a chance to run over it!
As we were about to get back on the bikes we were overtaken by the other group...the race was on! Nick and I pulled our socks up, downed some of the magic 'high5' energy drink and were off like Michael Jackson chasing kids. The pursuit didn't last long as we soon saw the other racers in the distance. Still high on adrenaline (and accompanied by some strange sense of racing in the Tour of Britain??) we hurtled passed them with no looking back. Soon after we passed them we realised how ridiculously fast we were going and slowed back down to a sensible pace.
Following a quick lunch and rendezvous with the support team, we pressed on towards Fort William.
Cycled down THE best hill I've ever been down! It must have gone on for at least 10 minutes with an average speed well over 30mph!
The whole of the cycle was basically stunning view after stunning view, I can't get over how beautiful the landscape is, at some points it was hard to keep our eyes on the road! I think I've got more pictures from today than from all the other days combined!
Overall a pretty easy one today. To be honest we needed it following our mammoth 200 miles over the previous 2 days! Tomorrow looks like more awesome scenery but not such awesome weather...could be a wet one!
Ciao
Ian
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