Average speed: 13.28mph
Max. Speed: 31.53mph
Time in saddle: 6hr 5min
Total distance: 1039 miles
Soreness rating of nether region: 0 out of 10 (sorted ! )
The penultimate day and guess what, it was raining. The aim was to get all the way to the top of Scotland as far as the Atlantic Ocean.
Never use the words 'at least we have a tail wind' until you know the direction you would be travelling in for most of the morning. A lesson learnt I think.
It seems that more and more people within our group are taking tractor spotting seriously, as you ca see in the picture above, after cycling round one corner only to find another member of the group proudly on top of a somewhat delapidated Massey Ferguson.
Into the headwind we go and onto a pub for lunch, absolutely in the middle of nowhere. Strangest pub you will ever go in, using customers as extra staff, but not even loca'' customers, just tourists!
With 40 miles left to Bettyhill, the direction of the wind becomes somewhat better and the pace is a little better. My sense of humour is rather lost after seeing sign which say 26 miles to go, when I had it fixed in my mind, we had about 10 to go.
Clocked up the 1000 mile of the trip, photos above and saw the very first sign for John O'Groats.
Onwards to Bettyhill, which is something out of the wild west. One shop and one hotel and one pub whuch is part of the hotel.
All you an say is that the view from our hotel window of the atlantic is stunning, other than that, the place should be removed from the face of the earth. Not great place and hope I never see it again!
The last picture is from our hotel window.
Last day on Saturday, looking forward to it now being ovef. Had enough of living out of bags for two weeks, each hotel room having it's own quirks. Tomorrow will be job done assuming nothing goes wrong.
No comments:
Post a Comment