Day 12, Why?

Today would have been a nice day for sitting inside drinking coffee, reading the paper and surfing the net, but we're on a silly quest to cycle the UK End to End so that wasn't an option for us.

With 83 miles to cover we started off with a fierce head wind all morning, there were white horses on the Lochs and in places we were having to drop to our granny rings to make progress on the flat. The first brew stop was at the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge were we recharged and pressed on. It was a day when it was imnportant to keep swapping who was on front and took the brunt of the wind and made the riding a bit easier for those behind.

After lunch we had a 6 miles ascent of nearly 400 metres which, if you were daft enough, you could time yourself on for a Peak Tours King of the Mountains challenge. I was daft enough, although I knew full well I was never in contention. The peak tours record is 27 minutes for a client and 25 minutes for a guide. I think my climbing has got stronger over the last 10 days and was hoping for a time under 45 minutes! Picture Left is looking back down the hill.


Picture Right is my bike at the top of the climb, the climb is behind and stretched out in front the road down to the Falls of Foyers. Over lunch the wind eased and the rain started. All we could do was add layers and keep pedalling.

We're now in a warm B&B, we've had a fish and chip supper in our room, with our kit spread out around us to dry.

Tomorrow we head for Crask and position ourselves for the final push to JOG.