At 6am this morning, the numerous alarms we had all set simultaneously sounded to inform us that it was time to start our Epic journey from Lands End to John O’Groats.
Only the day before, we had packed up Frazer’s legendary Previa with 6 bikes and 9 days of clothes and kit, countless spares and not forgetting 6 very important bikes and drove down to Penzance for our first night staying at the YMCA hostel. It was decided by everyone that we did not make enough jokes about this but regardless, as the alarms sounded we arose from our triple story bunk beds and went down for breakfast.
After a short drive from Penance to Lands end we got out nearly froze to death sorting out all of the bikes and then went to take our pictures by the legendary sign!
In the long car journey down, one of the topics of conversation was the dreaded puncture, the terror of cyclists the country over is even more perilous when on a road bike the with the thinnest slimest tyers ever. We each decided to guess how many we would have as a group over the whole trip. Many numbers were banged about by people, I think I said 20 and others said similar high numbers. Diegan said 5 and we all laughed! In the car park at Lands End, Diegan was attaching his tyres and got punctures in both, Frazer had a similar problem. That was three and we hdnt even started yet! We then finally started to leave and after taking the wrong turning in the car park (the first of many) my tyre decided to blow up in my face, literally down the road, still in sight of the Lands End sign! That was 4 and about 7 -10 miles later, my rear tyre gave way and we were at 5 already! Turns out I had blown mine up a bit to much and coz im such a fatty I had blown them!
After that our day was almost incident free... we had noodles on the side of the road, a few near misses with cars, a few wrong turns but finally made it to Bude after many hard hours in the Saddle!
All in all a good day and we are all looking forward to the rest of our trip!
Please also be aware that all if not most f these updates are being done from a phone as WiFi and 3g connection is very limited in the west country. All pictures as well as the many funny videos we have taken will all be saved and uploaded properly and tell a much fuller story of our journey. This blog is but a taste of what is to come!
Please also remember that we are doing this mad cycle to raise money for WAMDSAD and would really appreciate you joining our facebook group or giving us some money on our just giving page!
Thanks a lot!
Lynch
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