Day 7 ~ Standish to Selside (North of Kendal) :
61 miles (all uphill)
After a wet and windy night (well downstairs anyway) we set off in depressingly damp and dreary conditions. The Driver dropped the riders at the start point and then went off to Charnock Richards services on the M6 to deal with the blog update which had frustrated so much on Wednesday. Actually I think it was that waste of space Gates who had provided a critical update the night before which had queered the machine ~ thanks Bill!!!
Anyway blog update was successful and then sadly it was another frustrating 2 hours of traffic through Preston before contact made again with our duo in Lancaster. At a stop for lunch the other side of town, a father and son were encountered who were not only cycling from John O’Groats to Lands End but combining this with the Three Peaks Challenge, which involves walking to the summits of Ben Nevis, Scaffel Pike and Snowdon! Fair play but we thought they were madder than us. They were Mike Morgan, a Matelot Artificer doing some missionary work with the RAF at present and his father, Rob and they were doing the ride for St Dunstans, a charity for blind ex-servicemen. With such an impressive feat Andy reckons Mike must have been a "Bootneck" in a previous life. If any of their friends are looking at this please don’t be shy with the sponsorship for their worthy charity.
Where the day had started so dismally it suddenly brightened to glorious sunshine and blue skies ~ just in time for the start of the Lakes. Fabulous, as the photo of the finish point for the day hopefully shows.
Then on arrival at our campsite the day was finished off by Andy demonstrating the skills learned from watching too much of that Ramsey chap (including language) in preparing "Pasta with pancetta, leek and mushrooms" ~ excellent with a cheeky Australian red from the Murray River! Thanks to Pete Tuckett and partner Jill/Gill for the loan of their cooker in our hour of need.
Only disappointment of the day then finding out we’d only made page 11 of the Gazette ~ surely bodies like ours merited page 3!
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3 comments:
My little adventurers,
not really sure where you all are as geography and map reading were never my strong point, as Andy never misses an opporunity to tell me!!
hope you've had another good day in the saddle and that your bottoms are holding out. Apologies as that ref to bottoms doesn't read very well does it!!
speak later
lots of love
Anne xx
All uphill to the Lake District was it Vince? I told you to go the other way, it's all down hill from Scotland. Hope you stocked up on Kendal Mint cake. Next cake stop won't be till Dundee for the fruit cake.
Have you seen a haggis yet?
Keep up the good work, you make it sound like fun!
Sheila
While you are up in the Lake District, might I suggest a visit to the Keswick Pencil Museum........
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