Day 10 Ingleton to Old Bollington
88 miles today, total miles 700, moving average 9.8 mph, overall average 7.7 mph, total time 11:30 hrs, total climbed 6,534ft (wow!)
A horrendous day and I'm exhausted so this will be a short report.
Set of at 8:00 into gales and rain.
My planned route was to go up Howgill Fell, which would have meant a climb up to 1,200 ft in atrocious weather (which genius came up with that route?). Changed this to a less severe route, which meant more miles.
Spent 6 hrs climbing up and down hills fighting the full force of the wind and had only covered 30 miles by 1:30pm
Was also not fun later on cycling through the traffic when trying to make my way around Preston, Warrington, Bolton and Wigan.
In end after getting lost trying to find the B&B I did nearly 90 miles and didn't finish until 7pm just as it was getting dark. I'm exhausted!!
Weather forecast for tomorrow is good and I'm really, really hoping for a better day.
Gavin
Come on Gavin - you can do it. Just keep going. The further South you get the better the weather will be :-)
ReplyDeleteHello Gavin, You are on an amazing trip, despite the weather and hills, try and enjoy every moment. We are very jealous of your opportunity to take in so much by bike...Keep going, and keep happy, you will be in Cornwall before you know it. Hannah (Hedgerley).
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