Day 4 was a particularly long 120 mile day from Pershaw to Warrington, we left Diegans aunts house stupidily full of amazing food at 8 in the morning and didn’t arrive at the hotel until 9pm! Long old day indeed!
It was just a long kind of falt kind of boring long day really, most exciting news was that we got 4 punctures, the first we have had for almost a day and a half. I got one one on some terribly serficed A road without realising for about 2 miles (“this road seems stupidly bumpy”) Diegan had 3, one 2 miles from finish in Warrington city centre when it started raining and getting dark!.
Nick had some family friends come visit and were cheering us on at the side of the road when we passed
We passed the time chatting and playing games and had fun trying to act like proper cyclists and riding in trains keeping very close to each other! Scary stuff but when it works it is very cool.
By the end of the day I was starting to get a little tired and pissed off with cycling, but a quick stop in Over soon sorted this problem. We stopped outside of a petrol station for a sausage roll and no sooner had we stopped a woman dressed in a dressing gown popped out of her house and shouted something almost incomprehensible back through the door and walked out, we were finally in the north! Other northern attributes that I had only heard of before today started happening all around me as we travelled further and further. I saw things such as a car on bricks, a man wearing a flat cap (without it being a joke) and so many pie shops my stomach hurt from laughing at each one we passed.
Finally arrived in hotel at 9, too late to make or go out for food, so ordered in pizza and went to bed!
Thanks for reading,
Matt
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