Lunch: A foot long sausage sandwich and chips - It was HUGE!Here we are in Harrogate - only about 65 miles today (tee hee hee) through some country and industry. It was a strange mix of cornfields, coal mines, power stations and poppies.
Yesterday we cycled from Derby to Whiston (Rotherham) via a killer hill - we had seen a sign for a National Trust mill and were hankering for tea and cake, but found no tea shop and a huge hill to get up after the mill. Went through Bolsover and Clowne before pushing on to Rotherham (Whiston).
We left Matt and Becky's house in Whiston and within about 12 miles had hit the 500 mile mark (marked with a rendition of 'I would ride 500 miles and I would ride 500 more' in the style of the Proclaimers). Then headed out towards a lovely village called Hooton Pagnell after refusing to pay £4.60 each just to get in to Brodsworth House to go to their tea shop. Had lunch at a place called Beal - a HUGE amount of food arrived after we told the barman that we were cycling from Land's End to John O'Groats. Couldn't eat it all and cycle...
Arrived in Harrogate about 6ish, caught up with blog, called Tom Nixon who decided he wouldn't want to put us ladies to shame with his speedy cycling so wouldn't be joining us tomorrow (that's the kindly version of events...).
Off to Barnard Castle tomorrow via Rippon and Richmond.
P.S. Sarah - GET TICKETS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!
2 comments:
We've been following your reports with interest and thinking about THE problem. Not punctures, but a name for the other bike. We've tried to find something to go with JET - a synonym, an antonym, anything, but the best we can think of is..
EASY
and maybe if you choose this, they might sponsor you?
Val & Chris Barker (Liz's parents)
Hi Helen!
If you're in Durham Thurs eve, then you've only got 130 ish miles to Edinburgh. So you've been making such good progress you'll probably hit Ratho by Sat eve, rather than Sun eve!
I'm away in Newcastle for the w/e - rock climbing in Northumbria. I'm not back till Sun eve - train only gets in 6.30pm. So will miss you as discussed.
You're doing really well. Just keep up the motivation and the last few days will race by and finish. And then you'll wonder why you aren't biking anymore! You'll be missing your bike and be wanting to go biking just for the hell of it!
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