Day2

A slow day but not so tiring. 86.7 miles and 7600ft of ascent. 10 hours door to door. Including one hour of breaks. To begin with there were more of the cornish river valleys, down 100 feet so steep that you have to brake then grind back up the other side. Then a delightful run on the camel trail which as a disused railway line is very flat. Then onto dartmoor which is also fairly flat after the initial ascent. At one stage a stand off between me and 100 sheep who coming in the other direction would not pass my yellow jacket, solved by the sheep dog biting a few by way of encouragement. Finally having left cornwall on to devon and its version of the river valleys, as cornwall, but if anything steeper. Staying in hatherleigh in a delightful B&B - Raymont House. Tomorrow with friends in Wells

Day 1

Arrived at the Victoria Inn at threemilesstones just outside truro .it seems vey nice just the job. Pretty tired by today. Up at six to catch the 722 from chelteham to penzance under way at 105. It would have been 100 but for the embarassing revellation on penzance station that i was wearing normal.boxers not my cycling shorts under my jeans. Then cycle to lands end back to penzance then on to truro

55.1miles and 5164ft of ascent in 5hours 40 mins includibg 20 min stop at lands end

time for  steak and chips

Training

This has been going well with nearly 900 miles completed.
Bike has gone in to Cheltenham cycles for a pre trip inspection.